abovett
October 29th, 2005, 08:26 PM
Hi
I'm finding it hard to understand the relationships between the various files involved in loading kernel modules under Ubuntu (and Debian) - /etc/modules, /etc/modprobe.d/* , /etc/modulils etc. Can anyone point me to some up to date documentation?
I recently had a problem with sound on a laptop and by googling around and hacking about I managed to get it to work (added a file to /etc/modprobe.d/ and some lines to /etc/modules), but I'm none too sure whether what I did was right and would like to understand _why_ it worked.
Some of the information I've seen appears to be out of date (references to modules.conf and conf.modules). I've also seen people advise adding settings to files in /etc/modprobe.d/ and then running update-modules - but when I do "man update-modules" it says the command is obsolete.
So all in all I'm a bit confused, and I'm not sure where to find the "proper" documentation to understand it all. Can anyone help?
Andy B
I'm finding it hard to understand the relationships between the various files involved in loading kernel modules under Ubuntu (and Debian) - /etc/modules, /etc/modprobe.d/* , /etc/modulils etc. Can anyone point me to some up to date documentation?
I recently had a problem with sound on a laptop and by googling around and hacking about I managed to get it to work (added a file to /etc/modprobe.d/ and some lines to /etc/modules), but I'm none too sure whether what I did was right and would like to understand _why_ it worked.
Some of the information I've seen appears to be out of date (references to modules.conf and conf.modules). I've also seen people advise adding settings to files in /etc/modprobe.d/ and then running update-modules - but when I do "man update-modules" it says the command is obsolete.
So all in all I'm a bit confused, and I'm not sure where to find the "proper" documentation to understand it all. Can anyone help?
Andy B