[SM-Discuss] alsa vs modutils and module-init-tools

Arwed von Merkatz v.merkatz at gmx.net
Sat Oct 24 04:30:00 EDT 2009


Excerpts from Bearcat M. Sandor's message of Fri Oct 23 21:19:46 +0200 2009:
> Folks,
> 
> My understanding is that modutils is depreciated in favor of
> module-init-tools.
> 
> The alsa start up script uses a full path of /sbin/lsmod.
> 
> modutils places lsmod in /sbin, and module-init-tools places it in
> /bin.
> 
> If one has module-init-tools (prefered) than alsa is broken.
> 
> Or perhaps it's just my system (i went from git to stable to test), or
> do i need to file a bug and fix it?

module-init-tools installs a symlink /sbin/lsmod -> ../bin/lsmod here,
not sure why this is missing on your system.
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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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