FC3: snd-intel8x0m, modprobe.conf, /etc/hotplug/blacklist

[Bill Nottingham]

Dexter Ang (thepoch at gmail.com) said: 
> install snd-intel8x0m /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-intel8x0m &&
> /usr/local/sbin/slmodemd --alsa --country=PHILIPPINES --perm=0666
> modem:1 >/dev/null 2>&1 &
> 
> in /etc/modprobe.conf so that upon loading of my modem's alsa driver,
> it would also load the slmodemd binary.
> 
> Now, I've noticed that in FC3, this driver (snd-intel8x0m) gets loaded
> automatically. I had placed it in /etc/hotplud/blacklist so that it
> doesn't get loaded by hotplug automatically, hoping that the setting
> in my modprobe.conf gets used instead. Well that doesn't seem to work
> as upon booting up, snd-intel8x0m doesn't get loaded. I can manually
> load it, and the slmodemd also gets loaded.

Um... the 'install' line in modprobe.conf just tells it what
to do when the module is requested. It doesn't actually
cause the module to get loaded at all.

Bill