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  • From: Ladislav Hagara <ladislav.hagara AT unob.cz>
  • To: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • Cc: "sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org" <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] alsa vs modutils and module-init-tools
  • Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:34:01 +0100


>>> 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
>

Seems module-init-tools 3.11 and 3.11.1 don't create this link.
We can update alsa start up script to use /bin/lsmod.

--
Ladislav Hagara





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