did you notice that the PC speaker does not work on Fedora?

Matthew Saltzman mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Wed Mar 9 23:22:18 UTC 2005


On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Florin Andrei wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 15:48 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>
>> Actually, if /etc/rc.modules does exist, just add the modprobe command to
>> it.  Also, if any package replaces an existing /etc/rc.modules instead of
>> appending lines to it, that package is broken.
>
> If that's the case, then probably it would be better if Fedora would
> deploy an empty rc.modules, containing only "#!/bin/sh" and let the
> packages echo "" >> to it.
> Or create a directory instead, allow packages to put files in it, and
> let rc.sysinit source'em up. This is probably the cleanest way.

That seems reasonable to me.  But I don't think there are any FC packages 
that use it.  The ipw2200 and slmodem modules would be candidates, but 
they aren't in FC.

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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