Skype and Linux

[Karl Larsen]

Matej Cepl wrote:
> On 2007-06-27, 19:36 GMT, Nigel Henry wrote:
>   
>> The Skype folks were giving you file references for the Debian 
>> OS. In Debian, /etc/modprobe.d has a bunch of files. Alsa-base 
>> is the one they were referencing, but I normally put any 
>> changes I want to make in another file, which as default is 
>> empty, and named "sound".
>>
>> Back to Fedora: The file that is used for all this stuff in Fedora 
>> is /etc/modprobe.conf.
>>     
>
> This is not correct -- take a look at modprobe(8) and 
> modprobe.conf(5), Fedora has exactly the same configuration as 
> Debian (I know, I used both).  I have here all my files in 
> /etc/modprobe.d and everything works like a charm. The only 
> caveat is (both at Debian and here) that when there is 
> /etc/modprobe.conf modprobe takes configuration from there, and 
> only if it isn't present it goes to individual files in 
> /etc/modprobe.d. Remove your /etc/modprobe.conf (of course, 
> compare its content with the content of /etc/modprobe.d files 
> first) and files in /etc/modprobe.d will be taken into 
> consideration.
>
> Best,
>
> Matěj Cepl
>
>   
    Hello and thanks for the info. I will sure look hard at man modprobe 
and modprobe.conf and see what they say. I was sure the Skype people 
were talking Debian :-)

Karl