18 Nov
2005
18 Nov
'05
5:41 a.m.
On Friday 18 November 2005 00:04, Mark Knecht was like:
Please note that there is no requirement in Gentoo to
use
update-modules. (or modules-update) Users are free to write
modprobe.conf by hand like they do on other distros. This is likely
one of those things that is sort of in the cracks.
It's just as confusing in Debian. update-modules is obsolete (that's what the
man-page says, it writes out to modprobe.conf), but due to the requirements
of backwards compatibility, the old structure still exists. The whole is
neither intuitive nor well documented.
--
cheers,
tim hall
http://glastonburymusic.org.uk/tim