From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Miller Subject: Re: modprobe snd-cs4236 question Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:31:10 -0500 (CDT) Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: References: <5.1.0.14.1.20041020083240.01f57b98@celine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20041020083240.01f57b98@celine> List-Id: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs