OK, I’ll admit it - I’m the reader in this case.

I was reading the booting section of my fancy-dancy LPI certification book and it speaks about kernel parameters. It mentions that you can feed the kernel parameters at boot time (which will be the subject of an upcoming entry) and also states that you can feed kernel modules parameters as well. It says that kernel module parameters can be specified in either the /etc/modules.conf or the /etc/conf.modules file.

I’m running Kubuntu 6.06LTS and I have neither of these files. I have an /etc/modprobe.d/ directory that contains a bunch of files that kind of look like what I want, but I’m not familiar enough with this topic to figure it out. I did some preliminary Googling and came up with this post that states running a sudo update-modules will create the modules.conf file, but it doesn’t work.

Now, it’s quite obvious that I don’t need this file as my system runs fine, but in order to understand how to pass module parameters, I need to understand how the system works in Ubuntu. Anyone want to take a shot at explaining it for me?

I’ve been getting some pretty technical questions these days - questions that I’m just not smart enough to answer. I had a brilliant (I think) idea to handle those questions, though. Rather than sending back a “Duh..I dunno” response, I thought I’d tap into the obvious expertise of my readers. For a “New” Linux user blog - there’s a lot of very knowledgeable people around here.

So - I’ve created the 6th category on New Linux User: Reader Questions. This is the first post in the category and I need help answering it.

Question, Do you know if I did not use kdm,gdm or xdm what would come up at startup? Right now I am using xdm. Would I be able to login and maybe I would have to start X and fluxbox my self?

Anyone wanna tackle this one?