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Re: startup & shutdown



Fredrik Appelberg wrote:
> 
> Hi again!
> 
> Allright, now I finally got my sb live soundcard working (debian
> kernel-image installs take all the pain out of kernel-upgrading) I
> thought it would be cool if I could get it to autoload when booting,
> so that I won't have to do su & modprobe manually every time. So
> started looking for rc.local (yes, I am an ex-redhatter), then
> remembered that debian uses a different startup routine. After having
> read the dox on sysvinit I'm still stumped though. Where do I put
> stuff that I want executed once and exactly once on boot? rc.boot
> seems like good candidate, but I don't want to mess with startup stuff
> that I don't know anything about.

You don't even need to load it that way. Install modutils and edit
/etc/modutils/aliases. You also need to have the kernel module loader enabled,
but I guess that's the case in the Debian kernel packages


Good luck,

Michel


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