alsa from 2.4 to 2.6: a couple of questions

[Cheryl Homiak]

Ok, first I got alsa to work in kernel 2.4.25. I figured by doing that I
eliminated trying to figure out extra problems that might have to do with
the 2.6 kernel before I had alsa at least established as working on my
system.
But now i'm not sure what to do with 2.6. I am doing alsa as modules,
though I have sound enabled in the kernel, not as a module. I recompiled
the driver for 2.6; didn't know if i also had to redo the libs and/or
utils. I can now load the modules manually and alsa works fine in 2.6.5,
but i can't figure out how to get it into modprobe.conf. Using
update-modules doesn't apparently add in the modutils/alsa file as in 2.4.
I do have a /etc/modprobe.conf, which primarily has a line to include
/lib/modules/modprobe.conf. Can somebody clarify these two issues for me:
getting it to come up at boot in 2.6.5 (debian unstable) and whether or
not I have to recompile and install the utils and libs--though everything
seems to e working once I load manually.
Thanks.


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Cheryl
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