>> On Sunday 16 March 2003 10:55 am, CM Miller wrote:
>> If I cat the backup copy of modules.conf, it pukes
>>out
>> as garbage.
>And hence the file probably couldn't be read at boot
>time.
Sorry, I didn't write back right away, very busy with
school/work.
So to understand you correctly, during bootup all of
these conf files you see at start up are being read by
cat? Correct?
> >> alias sound-slot-0 trident
> >> post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f
> >> /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
> >> What the hell are the post-install and pre-remove
> >> mean?
>
> Those lines are normal, they save and restore mixer
> settings.
I've never seen them before in modules.conf.
>
> What lines? I'm talking about the pre-remove and
> post-install...those can't be normal...cause once I
> removed them, then all modules loaded back ok.
>The pre remove and post install lines are correct.
The >do nothing
>more
>than load and save mixer settings for your sound
card. >Recreating the
>file is probably what allowed it to work.
> >> alias /proc/scsi/imm
> >> alias /proc/scsi/parport
> >> alias /lib/modules/2.4.18-26.8.0/kernel/fs/ntfs
> >The 3 lines above are invalid, I believe.
> >alias takes the form of "alias alias_name result"
But I want those modules to be loaded each time I
start up my box, so I manually don't have to do it
each time.
> THey work fine now and load these modules, unless
you
> can give a better example.
>Load what modules?
>The parport module is loaded by: alias
>parport_lowlevel parport_pc
>The ntfs module should be loaded on demand when you
>try to mount an
>ntfs
>filesystem (with mount /foo /bar -t ntfs ..., or an
>entry in
>/etc/fstab),
>and I've no idea what /proc/scsi/imm is supposed to
>do.
>If you are trying to load an scsi_hostadapter
>something like:
>'alias scsi_hostadapter imm'
>would be the syntax, but I've no idea if that is
>correct for your
>system.
>I take it this is for a zip drive?
You are correct, a zip 250 w/parallel connection.
>You might try a google search for
>imm
>and modules.conf to get the correct entries.
>My best guess at this point is that /etc/modules.conf
>got corrupted.
>You
>moved it out of the way, and replaced it with a good
>copy.
But how? How did it become corrupted? I still am
trying to understand that?
thanks
-Chris
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