Re: the mysteries of modprobe.d
Hi Brian
read http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Kerneld/index.html
and the docu of kernel sources.
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 08:05:23PM -0800, briand@aracnet.com wrote:
>
> The task is simple:
>
> autoload the snd-intel8x0 module when required.
>
> What to do ?
>
> This is one of the many mysteries of linux which I have _never_ seen
> explained. How do I know the name of the "thing" which the kernel is
> going to ask for ?
>
> So when I fire up xmms, in theory the kernel will turn around and ask
> for char-major-116. But how do I know that ? How would I figure it
> out ? And once I figured out it was char-major-116, how do I know
> that's the "snd" module and not a timer module, or the rtc, or the
> soundcore module instead ?
>
> Back to the task at hand, the top of the alsa-base file in modprobe.d
> looks like :
>
> alias char-major-116 snd
> alias char-major-14 soundcore
>
>
> And then there is a whole lot of other stuff.
>
> At some point I need an alias for the snd-intel8x0 module. What should
> the alias be? Where would it go in the order ?
>
> The same thing applies for USB devices. When I attach my wireless
> keyboard and mouse, the usbhid module is not autoloaded. Why not ?
> How do I know what to call the alias ?
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Brian
>
HTH
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