Re: Upon boot, many strange and useless modules are loaded

2003-07-30 Thread mody
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 10:46:23AM -0700, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > If you're using the default Debian kernel, it loads all of the modules > from the initrd, before it even mounts root. > > If you want to see what's going on, run: > > mount -oloop /initrd.img /mnt > > and look in /mnt. It's a cram

Re: Upon boot, many strange and useless modules are loaded

2003-07-30 Thread mody
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:35:24AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > That should have been /etc/modutils/aliases > > SORRY for the confusion I didn't notice that. :-) I know what file You mean. But it really doesn't help. :-( Mody pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Upon boot, many strange and useless modules are loaded

2003-07-30 Thread Mark Ferlatte
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said on Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 12:15:19PM +0200: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 08:09:34PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > In /etc/modutil/aliases put in: > > <...> > > > If you don't need any of them... uncomment all of them. > > > > Then run "update-modules" > > Hmm, didn't help. :-

Re: Upon boot, many strange and useless modules are loaded

2003-07-30 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 06:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 08:09:34PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > In /etc/modutil/aliases put in: > > Hmm, didn't help. :-( uncommented all but piix, run update-modules, > rebooted, but there are still many unused modules still loaded. That

Re: Upon boot, many strange and useless modules are loaded

2003-07-30 Thread mody
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 08:09:34PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > In /etc/modutil/aliases put in: <...> > If you don't need any of them... uncomment all of them. > > Then run "update-modules" Hmm, didn't help. :-( uncommented all but piix, run update-modules, rebooted, but there are still many un

Re: Upon boot, many strange and useless modules are loaded

2003-07-29 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 18:00, Rob VanFleet wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 10:16:15PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Nope. :-( > > Hmm, do you have hotplug or discover installed? Those will attempt to > autodetect hardware and load modules for them. Granted they're supposed > to load driver

Re: Upon boot, many strange and useless modules are loaded

2003-07-29 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 10:16:15PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:21:31PM -0500, Rob VanFleet wrote: > > Check /etc/modules. Any module entry in that file will be loaded at > > bootup. > > Nope. :-( Hmm, do you have hotplug or discover installed? Those will attemp

Re: Upon boot, many strange and useless modules are loaded

2003-07-29 Thread mody
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:21:31PM -0500, Rob VanFleet wrote: > Check /etc/modules. Any module entry in that file will be loaded at > bootup. Nope. :-( Mody # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are # to be loaded at

Re: Upon boot, many strange and useless modules are loaded

2003-07-29 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 06:46:13PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! > > On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 10:21:28AM -0500, Darin Strait wrote: > > After a little poking around, I found that all sorts of oddball modules (for > > which I don't have the hardware. serverworks?) had been loaded. After >

Re: Upon boot, many strange and useless modules are loaded

2003-07-29 Thread mody
Hi! On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 10:21:28AM -0500, Darin Strait wrote: > After a little poking around, I found that all sorts of oddball modules (for > which I don't have the hardware. serverworks?) had been loaded. After > manually rmmod-ing them, my mouse unfroze and all was happy. I have the sam

Re: Upon boot, many strange and useless modules are loaded

2003-07-28 Thread Tom Allison
Mark Ferlatte wrote: Bizarre. The funky little modules are due to the IDE rework that was merged into 2.4.21. The advantage is much better IDE support, but a side effect is that the IDE code got broken up into a ton of chipset specific modules. Is this in -testing? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Upon boot, many strange and useless modules are loaded

2003-07-28 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Darin Strait said on Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 10:21:28AM -0500: > I had left the machine running for a few weeks, when I needed to shut it down. > After rebooting, my USB mouse is frozen upon reaching the KDM login screen. > > After a little poking around, I found that all sorts of oddball modules (

Re: Upon boot, many strange and useless modules are loaded

2003-07-26 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 16:30:14 +0200, Darin Strait wrote: > I have a simple Gateway consumer-grade machine with an i810e motherboard, > 866MHz/128MB/120MB ide. I am running 2.4.21-2-686. Using grub to boot my old > 2.4.20 does not help. > > I had left the machine running for a few weeks, when I ne

Upon boot, many strange and useless modules are loaded

2003-07-26 Thread Darin Strait
I have a simple Gateway consumer-grade machine with an i810e motherboard, 866MHz/128MB/120MB ide. I am running 2.4.21-2-686. Using grub to boot my old 2.4.20 does not help. I had left the machine running for a few weeks, when I needed to shut it down. After rebooting, my USB mouse is frozen upo