Thanks Frank, that's probably the information I need :-) my only problem now, is that when I try to 'modprobe snd-opti92x-ad1848' I get 'no OPTi 82C92x soundcard found'. Which is strange because I'm sure I put one in the case :~] The soundcard is one that is theoretically PnP but in actuality is not recognised by the BIOS. I think I'm close tim hall On Sunday 16 February 2003 15:43, Frank wrote: > Hallo, > > tim hall hat gesagt: // tim hall wrote: > > >You might be better of by creating a file > > >/etc/modutils/alsa as described on alsa-project.org and run > > >update-modules as root by hand. > > > > interestingly enough alsaconf updated /etc/alsa/modutils/0.5 > > Delete this, if you don't use ALSA 0.5 and you really shouldn't do > that as well, 0.5 is way obsolete. > > > I have a file next door to it called ./0.9-demudi, which is much easier > > to read. > > I tried applying some appropriate looking values to this file, but I'm > > not sure how to activate it. update-modules does not appear to touch this > > file. I'm also not sure that I should be putting my soundcard details in > > /etc/modutils as that duplicates the values in /etc/alsa/modutils. > > They may already be the same file, i.e. one is a link to the other > like here: > > $ ls -l /etc/modutils/ > total 21 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Aug 12 2002 alsa -> > /etc/alsa/modutils/0.9 > > It is important, that you have one under /etc/modutils/. > update-modules collects everything under this directory to build the > 'real' module configuration, which is in /etc/modules.conf. This last > file gets overwritten everytime you or an installaton script calls > update-modules. > > ciao
