Hi again, On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 23:01 +1000, Andrew Greig wrote: > On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 07:37 -0700, Landis McGauhey wrote: > > Andrew, thanks, that did it! JPilot is now good to go. Now, please > > bear with me here as this is uncharted territory for me-- do I need to > > write a shell script for init so this is done at every boot, or is > > doing it once permanent? > > > > Thanks again, > > > > Landis McGauhey > > North-Central California USA > > > Hi Landis, > > I use Mandriva 2009 and for me it is just a matter of firing up Konsole > as root, and then using mc with its marvellous editor to edit > the /etc/modprobe.d/visor file by adding a hash before the only line in > the file which may be: > > blacklist visor > > thus: > > # blacklist visor > > hit F2 and save and exit.
On ubuntu (8.04) the corresponding file is /etc/modprobe.d/libpisock9. grep visor /etc/modprobe.d/* > If you do not have an /etc/modprobe.d/visor file then see if you have > an /etc/modprobe.preload file and edit that. Here is what mine looks > like: > > [and...@andrew etc]$ cat /etc/modprobe.preload > # /etc/modprobe.preload: kernel modules to load at boot time. > # > # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are > # to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with > # a `#', and everything on the line after them are ignored. > # this file is for module-init-tools (kernel 2.5 and above) ONLY > # for old kernel use /etc/modules > > nvidia_agp > [and...@andrew etc]$ > > In this case I would just add visor underneath the nvidia line and hit > return and then save. > > No script necessary in Mandriva but I cannot answer for other distros. > > Andrew Greig Matt Davey The journey of a thousand miles begins with mcda...@mrao.cam.ac.uk a broken fan belt and a leaky tire. _______________________________________________ gnome-pilot-list mailing list gnome-pilot-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-pilot-list