On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 18:54:00 +0000, Bertrand Masius wrote:

> Le Monday 31 January 2005 16:35, Andrew Walker a écrit:
>
>> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:09:54 +0000, Ben Measures wrote:
>>
>>> Andrew Walker wrote:
>>>> I'm having great trouble trying to get modules to load during boot up.
>>>> Initially it was just my joydev modules but it appears it is also the
>>>> serial port module 8250
>>>> I have added both to
>>>>
>>>> /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6
>>>>
>>>> but they both seem to be ignored. Once booted up I do modprobe 8250 and
>>>> lirc then works and modprobe joydev and my joystick works.
>>>> Any idea why they don't load the first time, my error logs show nothing
>>>> is wrong.
>>>
>>> Are you using a udev system?
>>
>> Yes, I am using udev. I've done modules-update without any errors.
>
> I would try a :
>
> # cd /usr/src/linux
> # make menuconfig (and check that those modules are marked 'M')
> # make dep && make modules && make modules_install
>
> Does it help ?

I'm wondering if it's my lack of understanding that is
the problem. The Gentoo docs say that under 2.6-kernels you only need to
do make && make modules_install to compile them. The kernel in use is
definitely 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 and the modules themselves appear to work when
manually probed.
I don't really understand the use of modules, I assumed you just did
modprobe (module name) or added the module name in

/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6

but what exactly is

/etc/modules.d/aliases

and what for example is

alias char-major-61