On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 02:08:53AM +0000, tim hall wrote: >I'm almost as new to Debian and Linux as I am to DeMuDi, so I've kind of >dropped myself in at the deep end I guess. >I've successfully installed the demudi-2.4.18 kernel, which I must say was >remarkably smooth i.e. my system still works jus as well as it did before I >installed the new kernel. Well done to whoever packaged that up! >However, when I get to the point of configuring demudi-base it comes up with: >modprobe: Nothing to load ??? >Specify at least a module or a wildcard like \* You cannot do modprobe \*, you always have to modprobe a specific modulename. >and then it hangs. I'm confused. Where should I specify these modules? In /etc/modules you can specify those modules you want to be loaded at boot time. I put modules in there like my scsi host controller and the module of my soundcard (snd-card-...) and the OSS emulation module (snd-pcm-oss I think). Because the module system knows its dependencies, automatically all the needed modules are loaded. >Also my system can't find any opti92x module does this mean I have to go >find/download one? I've been running the bluepoint/OPTi soundcard with mad16 >semi-succesfully up to this point. modprobe won't load seq-oss either which >makes me suspect I have conflicts with my modules (?) :-/ If you just installed a new kernel, you probably don't have the alsa modules for that kernel installed (look for a alsa-modules-2.4.18-... package). Once you install that, look for all the snd-card-*.o modules in /lib/modules/2.4.18/alsa/ and use the one referring to your sound card to modprobe, eg. modprobe snd-card-fm801 (without the .o). Modules are specific to a kernel version. >I will admit to being only about half-way through all the available >documentation, which _is_ mighty, _especially_ if I was compiling it. >I don't suppose anything like a straightforward demudi install HOWTO exists >just yet (I guess you're all flat out with current developments). I don't know of one yet. One useful place to look for docs is in /usr/share/doc/*, all distributions put the docs for all packages in there. Useful sites: http://www.djcj.org/LAU/guide/index.php, http://www.mstation.org/ and of course google with the right keywords ;) >forgive me if I'm being an utter twink here. If so, even a brief RTFM >response would probably give me a significant clue. I include the results of >my most recent lsmod & dmesg just to illustrate the point. Feel free to ask more questions if the need arises. best regards, Vincent
