Dan McMahill wrote:

[Dan, please wrap your messages at < 80 characters...I had to search for
the problem text, it was offscreen ;-) ]

> 
> Seeing the posts I decided to go ahead and try out the color X lkm on my
> machine (IIci, 1.2.1 GENERIC 0).   On boot, I see 
                       ^^^^^^^^^
There's your problem.  The NetBSD 1.2/1.2.1 GENERIC kernels (and possibly
-current GENERIC, no just checked, it appears to have been in there since 
January) do _not_ have LKM support compiled into the kernel.  Basically,
you need to compile your own kernel and add a line like:

options 	LKM		# LKM support

to your config file, then do a:

config CONFIG_FILE_NAME
cd ../conf/CONFIG_FILE_NAME
make depend && make

I believe that you can still get 1.2.1 source, since you will want to use
this source if your binaries are 1.2.1.

> macvid0 at nubus0: SuperMac Spectrum/8 Series III v1.2
> macvid0: 1024x768, monochrome
> grf0 at macvid0
> 
> When rc.local gets to the "modload" line (taken straight from the FAQ),
> I get a message  
> modload: /dev/lkm: Device not configured
> 
> 
> I used to get
> can't find /dev/lkm
> 
> so I did
> 
> cd /dev
> MAKEDEV lkm
> 
> and then rebooted.

Always a good idea to make sure that the device actually exists, but I
don't think that you really need to reboot here ;-)

> Am I missing something silly?  I do realize that there's a good chance
> my card won't work anyway, but I can't even get to that point. 

Not really.  If you don't want to go to the trouble of rolling your own
kernels, you could try "upgrading" to -current and seeing if that helps
some.

Later.

Colin