Re: modprobe snd-cs4236 question

[James Miller <jamtat@mailsnare.net>]

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Ray Olszewski wrote:

> In "standard Debian", the entries in /etc/modules get modprobe'd, not
> insmod'ed, so dependencies will be handled properly (assuming the
> dependencies file is up to date ... "standard Debian" runs depmod as part
> of the init process). You do put ONLY the names of the modules, plus any
> arguments, you want loaded in this file ... not either "insmod" or "modprobe".
>
> I haven't looked at Ubuntu so cannot tell you if it follows this "standard"
> procedure or not. But the "standard Debian" procedure just runs this
> feature from an ordinary init script (/etc/init.d/modutils), so you might
> check for a corresponding init script in Ubuntu.

Thanks for the clarification on /etc/modules and insmod/modprobe, Ray.
Looks like adding snd-cs4236 to /etc/modules is the answer for Ubuntu,
just as for "standard Debian."  There *is* an /etc/init.d/modutils script
in Ubuntu, btw.  More help requests on other topics will likely follow
soon.

James
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