On Wednesday 05 Nov 2003 6:06 am, Jack Coates wrote: > lsmod | less to see what's loaded and what depends on what. > modprobe -r [module] to remove a module. > grep -r [string] /etc to see where it's being loaded. > Thanks, Jack. That should help a lot.
Whilst trying to sort this out I found a work-around, but I don't really understand what's happening, because I don't know enough about what loads and when. What happened was that I found the /etc had not only modules.conf, but modules.conf.pwcx . At first I thought that this was a backed up files, the sort that you get when a careful driver addition writes out the old file to a backup before amending it, so I ignored it. Eventually I wondered if this file was actually being read and acted upon during the load, so I moved it to my home directory to see what happened. I still saw the warning message during the load, so it's still being loaded somewhere, it seems, but I no longer had the problem getting into my desktop. However, trying to run GnomeMeeting showed that it was not loaded, (or maybe incompletely - from trying your suggestions above it seems that there are two parts to it). I used the manual insmod and GM worked, and what's more the usb hub, scanner etc. no longer had problems. It's no longer a problem to me, but to turn this into a learning opportunity, can you tell me any more about what is likely to be happening? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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