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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] alsa vs modutils and module-init-tools
  • Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:09:39 -0800

On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:30:00 +0200
Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net> wrote:

> 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.

Those symlinks seem to be missing on at least one of my machines. I
have not done any checking into why, or if others have the symlinks
missing as well.

-sandalle

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