Gus Wirth wrote: > I've noticed that there is a difference in the behavior of modprobe when > running in a console vs running in an xterm. Specifically, messages that > are produced when running in a console are suppressed when running in a > xterm (or konsole for KDE, GNOME terminal for GNOME).
I did not have a ppa module, but I did have an empeg module which was even chattier. It even spoke to me durring the rmmod. I saw the messages when running from a bona fide virtual console, but when run from the xterm (aterm actually), it was silent. I checked the virtual console where started X, and nothing was there. I even checked the .xsession-error file, and nothing was there either. My only guess is something sysloggish in the *kernel* that displays certain information only if on a bonafide console. (/dev/tty2 vs /dev/pts/4) I tried modprobe empeg < /dev/tty2 in order to try to trick it, but it was too smart for me: no messages were displayed anywhere. -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
