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Re: Some ALSA apps stopped working [REALLY SOLVED]



Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 10:30:15 +0100, Chris Lale wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> Problem solved. alsaconf runs the obsolete command "update-modules" which
>> modifies /etc/modprobe.d/sound and /etc/modprobe.conf if present. According to
>> the update-modules man page the existence of /etc/modprobe.conf will cause
>> /etc/modprobe.d/ to be ignored by Debian packages which store their
>> configuration files there.
> 
> [...]
> 
>> I am not sure why /etc/modprobe.conf existed. Probably because my Etch (Stable)
>> system has been incrementally upgraded from Woody (Stable) and Etch (Testing).
>>
>> Worth reporting as a bug, do you think?
> 
> I would say so; the manpage of update-modules is pretty clear about it:
> 
> "Any program calling [update-modules] should be fixed."

Good point. I'll get onto it.

> 
> (It is nice that this possible pitfall is now documented in the list
>  archives.)
> 

Yes. Thanks very much for your help. :)

-- 
Chris.



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