I happened to be in this territory a couple of nights ago... so here's a summary of what I learned. The priority order for the case of multiple modules with the same name may be controlled by modifying /etc/depmod.conf . As Takashi says, and quoting from `man depmod.conf`: By default, depmod will give a higher priority to a directory with the name updates using this built-in search string: "updates built-in" but more complex arrangements are possible and are used in several popular distributions. Other directories may be given priority by specifying your own search line as follows: in /etc/depmod.conf ------------------------- search my-custom-drivers updates built-in ------------------------- After installing a new module (and perhaps manually running depmod), you can check which module will actually be used with grep my-module-name /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.dep This takes out all the guesswork and makes success a 'sure thing' :-) . Ben Stanley. On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 11:47 +1200, Eliot Blennerhassett wrote: > This just an FYI > > In Ubuntu 8.04, ubuntu has packaged alsa-drivers including some out of > tree drivers in a separate package: linux-ubuntu-modules-$kernelver > > This gets installed in /lib/modules/$kernelver/ubuntu/sound > > The only things installed in /lib/modules/$kernelver/sound are > soundcore.ko and ac97_bus.ko > > However, when you do a default "make install" from alsa-driver source, > the modules get installed in /lib/modules/$kernelver/kernel/sound > > So, now there are 2 copies of the drivers in different places. > > I have taken to removing (moving away to say /root) > /lib/modules/$kernelver/ubuntu/sound to avoid any confusion and some odd > module versioning problems that I was having. > > regards > > Eliot. > > > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-devel mailing list > Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
