Messages in this thread | | | From | (bill davidsen) | Subject | Re: 2.6.0-test9 vs sound | Date | 10 Nov 2003 20:30:55 GMT |
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In article <yw1x8yn1zfb8.fsf@kth.se>, =?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= <mru@kth.se> wrote: | Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net> writes: | | > Some of the tutorials in those links would seem to indicate that | > /etc/modules.conf has been renamed, which I have not, and my modutils | > are still the same as I've been using for a few months with 2.4. I | > saw an announcement regarding a new modutils tool set last night, do | > I need to install that, and does that then fubar a 2.4.23-pre8 boot? | | You need the new module-init-tools. If you follow the instructions | provided with them, things will continue to work with 2.4 kernels.
The only thing to watch out for is that the "probe" functionality was removed from the new package, which requires manual loading of the modules and testing of the status. Inconvenient if you need to do it at boot time, otherwise write a script. That feature typically was used only when the hardware for the initial drivers might be nonfunctional and and alternative was needed. -- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" 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.tux.org/lkml/
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