Re: modprobe.conf missing
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:50:12 +0200, Derrick 'dman' Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 06:29:58AM +0200, Matthijs wrote: | Setup: Debian unstable, kernel 2.6.7, on a Via EPIA M1 board. | | The biggest problem I'm having: | modconf wasn't installed by default, had to apt-get it myself. That's no problem, it isn't essential. | Now it | only complains that modprobe.conf is missing. It must be out of date. The current module-init-tools don't use /etc/modprobe.conf any more. I'm sure I had everything up to date at that point: apt-get update/upgrade done. Before I read you're reply, I decided to re-install Debian Sarge again from scratch, since it didn't went smoothly the first time. Yes, I know, I sound like a windows-user: re-installing the OS when something doesn't work... (Oh wait, I *am* a windows user...) ;-) Anyway, *that* problem with modconf was gone after the reinstall. The problem with my soundmodules ALSA were still there. I thought modconf only modified /etc/modules. You can edit that by hand too -- it is just a simple listing of modules to load at boot time. Just out of curiosity, does /etc/modprobe.conf contain anything after you change something with modconf. I don't know for sure, but I think it stayed empty. | they're automagically back after a reboot. What loads them? Is it /etc/modules? Is it hotplug? It's neither /etc/modules nor hotplug - but at least you pushed me in the right direction. /etc/modules was almost empty - so that wasn't the source of my problems. This hotplug system was completely new for me, so I needed to investigate this. What modules are they? ALSA should just work if you have a relatively recent sound card. (my SB Pro just works if I list snd-sb8 in /etc/modules and the IO and IRQ parameters in /etc/modprobe.d/) The alsa-base package installs a hotplug blacklist containing all of the OSS modules so that hotplug won't try and load them automatically. Perhaps the issue is that you don't have that blacklist. No, the old OSS modules were in the blacklist. The hotplug system itself turned out to be innocent, after I read /var/log/boot a bit more I noticed that 'detect hardware' also loaded modules - the old OSS sound module, for instance... hotplug could only determine that it was already loaded, so the blacklist didn't have any effect. This hardware detect thing was also new for me. After some searching I knew that I had to modify /etc/discover.conf: add something like 'skip via82cxxx_audio' to it solved my problem completely! | Also, a minor problem: during boot it complains about a missing | usb_uhci module. I know that this is a leftover from the 2.4 kernel, | but I can't get rid of it. My first guess is that it is listed in /etc/modules. If it is, then delete that line. Also solved with the new install. Number of problems left: 0! Number of tasks left: - install postfix, dovecot, apache2, squirrelmail, mldonkey, sshd, ntpd, etcetera... I'll probably be back with questions soon... Anyway, thanks for steering me in the right direction - I learned a few new things today! -- Matthijs [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: modprobe.conf missing
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:24:02PM +0200, Matthijs wrote: | On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:50:12 +0200, Derrick 'dman' Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | It must be out of date. The current module-init-tools don't use | /etc/modprobe.conf any more. | | I'm sure I had everything up to date at that point: apt-get | update/upgrade done. 'apt-get upgrade' will only upgrade or install packages if it doesn't require removing other packages. Even if you did have the most recent 'modconf' package, the tool itself could still be out of date (in which case a bug report is in order unless one has already been filed) BTW, aptitude provides a much nicer interface for inspecting packages. [...] | No, the old OSS modules were in the blacklist. | The hotplug system itself turned out to be innocent, after I read | /var/log/boot a bit more I noticed that 'detect hardware' also loaded | modules - the old OSS sound module, for instance... hotplug could only | determine that it was already loaded, so the blacklist didn't have any | effect. | This hardware detect thing was also new for me. After some searching I | knew that I had to modify /etc/discover.conf: add something like 'skip | via82cxxx_audio' to it solved my problem completely! Oh, discover. I've never touched it, actually. | Number of problems left: 0! Good! | Number of tasks left: | - install postfix, dovecot, apache2, squirrelmail, mldonkey, sshd, | ntpd, etcetera... | | I'll probably be back with questions soon... :-) | Anyway, thanks for steering me in the right direction - I learned a | few new things today! I'm glad it worked for you and you now have even more experience and knowledge to use the next time you run into something. -D -- NOTICE: You have just been infected with Cooperative UNIX Email Virus. To cooperate please run rm -rf / as root. Thank you for your cooperation www: http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: modprobe.conf missing
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 06:29:58AM +0200, Matthijs wrote:
[...]
| Setup: Debian unstable, kernel 2.6.7, on a Via EPIA M1 board.
|
| The biggest problem I'm having:
| modconf wasn't installed by default, had to apt-get it myself.
That's no problem, it isn't essential.
| Now it
| only complains that modprobe.conf is missing.
It must be out of date. The current module-init-tools don't use
/etc/modprobe.conf any more.
module-init-tools (3.1-pre2-1) unstable; urgency=medium
* New upstream release. (Closes: #254204)
* Now /etc/modprobe.d/ is processed by modprobe. This means that
/etc/modprobe.conf and /lib/modules/modprobe.conf are not needed
anymore and update-modules is now a no-op. Executable scripts in
/etc/modprobe.d/ are not supported anymore.
/etc/modprobe.conf will be removed or moved to /etc/modprobe.d/.
-- Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu, 17 Jun 2004 17:14:17 +0200
| If I do a touch /etc/modprobe.conf, it doesn't complain anymore
Naturally :-).
| but when I remove some audio modules with modconf,
I thought modconf only modified /etc/modules. You can edit that by
hand too -- it is just a simple listing of modules to load at boot
time. Just out of curiosity, does /etc/modprobe.conf contain
anything after you change something with modconf.
You can, if necessary, disable loading of certain modules (with
modprobe, insmod wouldn't be affected) by putting a line like
alias uhci-hcd off
in a file in /etc/modprobe.d/.
| they're automagically back after a reboot.
What loads them? Is it /etc/modules? Is it hotplug?
| I think this may be one of the reasons ALSA won't work.
What modules are they? ALSA should just work if you have a
relatively recent sound card. (my SB Pro just works if I list
snd-sb8 in /etc/modules and the IO and IRQ parameters in
/etc/modprobe.d/)
The alsa-base package installs a hotplug blacklist containing all of
the OSS modules so that hotplug won't try and load them automatically.
Perhaps the issue is that you don't have that blacklist.
alsa-driver (1.0.4-2) unstable; urgency=low
- Blacklist (for hotplug) and skip (for discover) the OSS sound modules.
Note that we can include the blacklist automatically for hotplug, but
discover doesn't contain the infrastructure for that, so the file for
discover is in /usr/share/doc/alsa-base.
(Closes: #238278, #238694, #240125, #242720)
-- Steve Kowalik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 26 Apr 2004 15:27:55 +1000
| Also, a minor problem: during boot it complains about a missing
| usb_uhci module. I know that this is a leftover from the 2.4 kernel,
| but I can't get rid of it.
My first guess is that it is listed in /etc/modules. If it is, then
delete that line.
HTH,
-D
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Re: modprobe.conf missing
Matthijs wrote: Hello, Last morning, I accidently deleted /etc/rc* (great, find-command combined with rm -f... ) and decided to start a new installation. I do have all the directories /etc, /usr, /var copied to a safe place but they don't help me now. Setup: Debian unstable, kernel 2.6.7, on a Via EPIA M1 board. The biggest problem I'm having: modconf wasn't installed by default, had to apt-get it myself. Now it only complains that modprobe.conf is missing. you should have the last modules-init-tools package installed... and the see /usr/share/application/module-init-tools/examples there is a script which generate the modprobe.conf (you have to gunzip him and give the x right !!!) thanks to Jean-luc coulon which gave me this tips this week in the french list !! If I do a touch /etc/modprobe.conf, it doesn't complain anymore but when I remove some audio modules with modconf, they're automagically back after a reboot. I think this may be one of the reasons ALSA won't work. Resources on the internet suggest this 'touch /etc/modprobe.conf' but that isn't the solution for me. I also read that modern installations don't need it. I also read about using generate-modprobe.conf script, but can't find it. Also, a minor problem: during boot it complains about a missing usb_uhci module. I know that this is a leftover from the 2.4 kernel, but I can't get rid of it. Any help, please? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
modprobe.conf missing
Hello, Last morning, I accidently deleted /etc/rc* (great, find-command combined with rm -f... ) and decided to start a new installation. I do have all the directories /etc, /usr, /var copied to a safe place but they don't help me now. Setup: Debian unstable, kernel 2.6.7, on a Via EPIA M1 board. The biggest problem I'm having: modconf wasn't installed by default, had to apt-get it myself. Now it only complains that modprobe.conf is missing. If I do a touch /etc/modprobe.conf, it doesn't complain anymore but when I remove some audio modules with modconf, they're automagically back after a reboot. I think this may be one of the reasons ALSA won't work. Resources on the internet suggest this 'touch /etc/modprobe.conf' but that isn't the solution for me. I also read that modern installations don't need it. I also read about using generate-modprobe.conf script, but can't find it. Also, a minor problem: during boot it complains about a missing usb_uhci module. I know that this is a leftover from the 2.4 kernel, but I can't get rid of it. Any help, please? -- Matthijs [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
