[linux-audio-user] ALSA issues - SOLVED

tim hall tech at glastonburymusic.org.uk
Fri Nov 18 04:29:36 EST 2005


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 update-modules is obsolete (that's what the 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



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