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new2arch

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Registered: 2008-02-25

Posts: 235

Rc.conf and modules

Hello gentlemen,

I recently re-installed Arch on my PC and noticed that the modules section in rc.conf is empty. My previous Arch installation rendered several modules that were automatically loaded which was reflected in the modules section. Did I miss something?

Everything works as a charm though and I manually added the modules I wanted to start.

EVRAMP

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From: Czech Republic

Registered: 2008-10-03

Posts: 173

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Re: Rc.conf and modules

This is normal, udev loads needed modules automatically, so there's no need to specify modules in rc.conf.

new2arch

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Registered: 2008-02-25

Posts: 235

Re: Rc.conf and modules

This is normal, udev loads needed modules automatically, so there's no need to specify modules in rc.conf.

Okay, thanks for clearing that out.

Mektub

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From: Lisbon /Portugal

Registered: 2008-01-02

Posts: 647

Re: Rc.conf and modules

new2arch,

when you have MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes" in /etc/rc.conf, the needed modules should automatically load.

You can always explicitly load (or not) specific ones.

F.e., I have:

MODULES=(!snd-pcsp)

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new2arch

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Registered: 2008-02-25

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Re: Rc.conf and modules

new2arch,

when you have MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes" in /etc/rc.conf, the needed modules should automatically load.

You can always explicitly load (or not) specific ones.

F.e., I have:

MODULES=(!snd-pcsp)

Mektub

Mektub - I don't recall how that particular line in rc.conf looks like in my newly built system but I'll check it out later. I also don't remember if I had to explicitly change "AUTOLOAD=NO" into "YES" when I first installed Arch about a year ago, but on my laptop it says "yes" and there are a bunch of modules present.

I've disabled the system beeps in rc.conf, and also enabled fuse so I guess modules are autoloaded but by udev and those aren't being shown i rc.conf.

new2arch

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Registered: 2008-02-25

Posts: 235

Re: Rc.conf and modules

I can confirm the new Arch system has mod autoload = yes in rc.conf.