This is related to my problem at: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=354031

However all I want to know is:

How do you configure /etc/modules.conf to alias two different drivers to the same device? I want to attempt one alsa driver to the soundcard, and then the the other as in:

alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0

The only thing I can find that works is to remove the /etc/modprobe.d/sound file and then add the following two lines to my /etc/rc.local file:

modprobe snd-via82xx
modprobe snd-intel8x0

.. which works, but how do I do the above using the modules.conf file?

This may be rather simple, and I may be missing it, but as far as I know, you add

snd-via82xx
snd-intel8x0

on separate lines in /etc/modules.com file

Hope that helps,

Rhys

Hi Rhys, thanks for advice. I tried it but it turns out because this is debian, things are different and works with a strange system. I'm no fan of debian and I'm sure it's great and all but it doesn't cater for my particular situation.

Anyway, I found this post: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...97#post1079897
which outlines getting the modconf utility. This allowed my to nominate that both modules are to at least load into memory by the kernel at boot time. Then I had to specify one of the modules in the /etc/modprobe.d/sound file for alsa. A little clunky but now my harddrive works in both machines.

And from now on I'll use a distro that uses the good old fashioned modules.conf.

That's funny, because I use debian, with a nvidia driver, which I require to load each tim e the computer starts, and putting it into the file worked fine!

It's a strange world.

By the way, Debian is one of the more difficult distributions to learn to use, but reaps great rewards. If you are sure it is not for you, who am I to argue. However, I would say, if you haven't spent much time with it, try it out for a bit longer, you may be happy in the end.

Rhys

Hmmm well I dunno. But I do know that alsa drivers seem to be law unto themselves. When I vi modules.conf it does say in the file that the file is not meant to be edited and to use the files in /etc/modutils.