-- Donald R. Spoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Sunday, 13 October 2002, 03:38 PM -0500): > David P James wrote: > >I'm wondering why my modules.conf that I had to edit keeps reverting > >back to the previous version every time I reboot <snip> > The /etc/modules.conf file is auto-generated by the "update-modules" > command from the contents of the /etc/modutils/ directory. This is > well-documented at the top of the modules.conf file and in "man > update-moudules". <snip> > If you want your changes to be permanant, you should should not modify > /etc/modules.conf directly. You should use one of the other tools like > the "modconf' command or insert the proper changes in the /etc/modutils/ > directory then use update-modules to make them permanent. > > I have also found that inserting the needed modules in /etc/modules > works quite well too in most cases, and is a bit simpler to implement > for me.
Unless I'm passing options to a module, I *always* simply add it to the /etc/modules file -- and I've never had a problem. This is unintuitive if you're migrating from other distributions (Slack comes to mind) where you edit modules.conf by hand -- but I think you'll find Debian's handling of kernel modules is much easier to manage -- as long as you follow the Debian Way(tm). -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
