[ILUG] Re: Visor

[Martin Feeney]

On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 10:01:31 John Gay wrote:

> This is the RedHat way. Does anyone know the Debian way?

Right, the quick guide to modules in debian.

mbf at greenspot:~$ man 5 modules

The /etc/modules file contains the names of kernel modules
       that are to be loaded at boot time, one  per  line.  Argu-
       ments  can  be  given in the same line as the module name.
       Comments begin with a `#',  and  everything  on  the  line
       after them are ignored.

So that's where the modules you want modprobed go.

I find that a slightly better (and more modular) way of doing options for
modules is to create a bunch of files in /etc/modutils.

All files in /etc/modutils and the contents of /etc/modutils/arch/<machine
architecture - e.g. i386> are compiled into /etc/modules.conf when you run
update-modules (which you should do every time you change anything in
/etc/modutils. Don't edit /etc/modules.conf directly unless you like to see
your settings getting blown away.

e.g.:

mbf at greenspot:/etc/modutils$ cat sound
options sb io=0x0220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=0
options opl3 io=0x0388

mbf at greenspot:/etc$ cat modules
3c59x
v_midi
opl3
sb

Oh, and if you're building modules on the fly, make sure you 'depmod -a'
before you try loading them.

Martin.