Loading and blacklisting modules

[Davide Mancusi <arekfu@gmail.com>]

I am trying to solve two problems:
1. Load my sound-card module ("snd_via_82xx") before "snd_usb_audio" (I 
have a webcam with integrated mike); for some reason, sound won't work 
if they are loaded in the opposite order;
2. Avoid to load the "floppy" module at each boot, since I do not have a 
floppy drive.

What is the proper way to load sound-card modules at boot? I have read 
somewhere on this list that alsaconf is no longer recommended. Is udev 
supposed to handle everything now? What should I have in /etc/modules 
then? Most importantly, how do I configure udev to get the modules in 
the right order and to prevent "floppy" from being loaded (if it is 
actually udev's fault...)?

Thanks for reading.
Davide

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