/etc/modules.d how to understand

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/etc/modules.d how to understand
\ Helmut Jarausch (16 Jul 2007)
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Subject:	/etc/modules.d how to understand
Group:	Gentoo-user
From:	Helmut Jarausch
Date:	16 Jul 2007

Hi,

I'd like to understand the "magic" of files in /etc/modules.d
How to write such an 'alias' line.
Can anybody point me to a HowTo?

E.g. in kernel 2.6.22 there is no more an option to select
a USB-WACOM tablet input.
I've built the kernel module from the linuxwacom project,
but what's the right way to load the module.
(I could do an explicit insmod in /etc/conf.d/local.start
but that's not the canonical solution, isn't it.)

Many thanks for your help,

Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany
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