On Thursday 31 March 2005 17:02, Gregory J. Haase wrote:
> I think what Jarod was referring to was the fact that not every distro
> uses /etc/modprobe.conf.  The actual contents should be the same, but
> the actual file that is read may be different.

Yes, sorry, that's what I meant.

> e.g., on my Gentoo-amd64 box, there is a generic file /etc/modules.conf
> which has the basic information in it and the top line says "Please do
> not edit this file directly"
>
> What you're supposed to do there is create a file inside of
> /etc/modules.d/ and put the contents there.
>
> So on my box I have a few files like /etc/modules.d/alsa,
> /etc/modules.d/ivtv, /etc/modules.d/nvidia, etc.
>
> The file /etc/modules.d/ivtv contains the contents from your quick
> setup.

To make it even more interesting, Debian has a mix of stuff in 
both /etc/modules.d/ and /etc/modutils/.

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Jarod Wilson
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