On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 02:28:05AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > That is exactly the thing I do not understand. Since those lines are only > comments, why does modprobe tries to locate module char-major-14 in the first > place? (I do not want any sound.)
$ ls -l /dev | grep 14, crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 4 Sep 8 1999 audio crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 Sep 8 1999 dsp crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 2 Sep 8 1999 midi00 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 0 Sep 8 1999 mixer crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 1 Sep 8 1999 sequencer crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 6 Sep 8 1999 sndstat ^ ^ ^ | | +- Minor device number | +------ Major device number +------------------------------------------ Character special file tag (I've edited out a lot of that list, but you get the point.) Some program or other is making a request to an audio device, probably /dev/audio or /dev/dsp. All of these device files are character (as opposed to block) special files with major device number 14, so the kernel looks for code which handles devices matching those characteristics to service the request; by convention, such a driver is referred to by the alias char-major-14. /etc/modules.conf tells the kernel which external modules to look in for external drivers. Since it doesn't have support for char-major-14 internally, the kernel asks modprobe to search /etc/modules.conf and load the appropriate module to handle the request. You've commented the relevant lines out, so modprobe can't find an appropriate driver and logs a complaint that something appears to be wrong. So, to answer your original question, there are two ways you can make these messages go away: 1) Add an "alias char-major-14 off" line to /etc/modules.conf, which tells modprobe that it should just ignore requests for that device because no appropriate driver exists. 2) Configure all of your software to make no attempts to access any sound-related devices. Personally, I'd go for option #1. It's a lot easier. -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss
