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mathfeel
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 Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 1:28 am Post subject: [solved]how do i pick which driver to use? |
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I have an nvidia nforce 2 chipset. There is a proprietary driver for the ethernet called nvnet, but also an opensource, reversed engineered driver call forcebeth. Both modules are compiled against the curernt kernel. How do I tell linux which modules to load when starting? Same goes for the audio driver nvsound vs. snd-intel8x0 (from alsa-driver)
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put the modules you want to load in
/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6
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mathfeel
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| jstead1 wrote: | put the modules you want to load in
/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 |
udev actually handles most of modprobe now. The solution to my problem is, if I want to load nvnet instead of fetchdeth, I have to put
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alias eth0 nvnet
alias fetchdeth off
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in /etc/modules.d/nvidia (I made this file up), then run modules-update.
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