SOLVED WITH QUESTIONS Re: Latest NVidia Driver Issue

[Shane Ambler]

On 13/10/2014 05:14, Michael Sierchio wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Dave <dcbdbis at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> I researched where the loader looks for modules, and it looks like
>> /boot/modules is not in it's search path. /boot/modules was where the nvidia
>> module was put after I built it from ports.

I'm on 10.1 RC2 and /boot/defaults/loader.conf contains
module_path="/boot/modules"

I see the same line in 8.4 9.3 and 10.0

> kudzu at daggoo:~ 204> sysctl kern.module_path
> kern.module_path: /boot/kernel;/boot/modules
>
> you could add this to your /boot/loader.conf
>
> module_path="/boot/kernel;/boot/modules"     # Set the module search path

I have mine set to
kern.module_path=/boot/kernel;/boot/modules;/usr/local/modules

Ports like sysutils/fusefs_kmod and emulators/rtc install into 
/usr/local/modules


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