From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from axis.scu.edu.au(wwwproxy.scu.edu.au[203.2.32.1]) (1601 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Wed, 27 Dec 2000 05:22:35 -0500 (EST) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from alsvid.scu.edu.au (alsvid.scu.edu.au [203.2.33.1]) by axis.scu.edu.au (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA32076 for ; Wed, 27 Dec 2000 21:22:31 +1100 (EST) Received: from data.home (mail@annex3.scu.edu.au [203.2.32.103]) by alsvid.scu.edu.au (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id VAA12441 for ; Wed, 27 Dec 2000 21:22:30 +1100 (EST) Received: from geoff by data.home with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 14BDj2-0000He-00; Wed, 27 Dec 2000 21:22:28 +1100 Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 21:22:28 +1100 (EST) From: Geoff Shang To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Alsa 0.5.10 w/ Debian - was: Re: not working yet In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: Hi: Under debian, you don't need it all in aliases. In fact, it's better if it's not, as aliases can get replaced during an upgrade. It will ask you about it, but it's easier to let it do what it has to do rather than have to manually change it out and then back in again. Update-modules will put in any files that are in /etc/modutils, so if you have a file called alsa (like Terry does), it will get pulled in after aliases. Note that this is how debian does it. Don't know about anyone else. Geoff. -- Geoff Shang ICQ number 43634701