/etc/modules.d/nvidia invites users to " uncomment following line: ", with several groups of module options spread over separate lines. All options for a given module must be on a single line, since generate-modprobe.conf will otherwise only pick out the last one from /etc/modules.conf to put in /etc/modprobe.conf (the module config file for 2.6 kernels) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 'uncomment the line' in /etc/modules.d/nvidia 2. run update-modules, generate-modprobe.conf (module-init-tools) - normally done automatically. 3. spend a day trying to figure out why some of your module options are being ignored, bug nvidia employees on nvidia linux driver board This is all a result of Gentoo's weird module config system which should use either: /etc/modules.conf, /etc/modules.d/*, /etc/modules.devfs (for 2.4 kernels) OR /etc/modprobe.conf, /etc/modprobe.d/*, /etc/modprobe.devfs (for 2.6 kernels) but instead uses generate-modprobe.conf to take the 2.4.x modules.* files and generate modprobe.conf
Created attachment 127324 [details, diff] Patch to fix the symptom This patch makes the default module config file clearly state that all module options should live on a single line.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 188057 ***
Jakub, I opened this bug as an alternative to 188057, because something should be done about the misleading instructions contained in /etc/modules.d/nvidia. I have created a patch to fix the problem, which is attached. It is not a duplicate, because it references nvidia-drivers as the problem, not module-init-tools. Andy
Great, lets create 10 bugs about the same thing.
fixed in 169.07 and higher
