ATAPICAM?

Chris Maness chris at chrismaness.com
Sun Feb 26 08:35:28 PST 2006


Vulpes Velox wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 22:06:22 -0800
> Chris Maness <chris at chrismaness.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> How do I load atapicam at boot time?  I can load it with no
>> problems after the system has started, but I if I ad the line
>> atapicam_load="YES" in /*boot*/loader.conf, the kernel turns to
>> fried chicken at boot time. Is there a secrete recipe ;o) to get
>> this to work correctly.
>>     
>
> I have found there are some chipsets atapicam does not like. Not
> tried it recently, but I have seen similar problems with a Promise
> PDC20268 card under a old relen_5.
>   
Thanks for the reply.  After investigation I think it was loading the 
sound modules at boot time that actually causes intermittent problems.  
Is there a way to automatically load all of the kernel modules at the 
end of the boot sequence.


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