Doofus wrote:
Dell Inspiron
sarge/2.4.27
Not strictly a laptop question this, but...
The last time I spent my quality time playing with debian this subject
mostly came down to the contents of /etc/modules. I've just compiled a
new kernel and although it's highly modular and I've emptied
/etc/modules, all manner of guff is auto-loaded that I really just want
to load manually as and when needed - especially on a battery powered
laptop (eg hw_random, ide_cs for a pcmcia microdrive, ieee1394, and
even the USB modules).
Can someone tell me where things have changed and what I should be doing
to prevent auto-loading of anything I choose (or what I should be
reading). At first glance it seems to be a mixture of the hotplug
subsystem and some new hardware discovery utility? Does /etc/modules
even have a worthwhile function anymore, or are we headed for a virtual
plug and play "ah - we're so clever we know what all your hardware is
and therefore insist on spinning your microdrives until your battery is
dead wether you're using it or not" scenario? Ignore my cynicism, it
just doesn't seem very linux-like anymore; we could have all this with
windows 98.
I always have minimal or no modules (some pcmcia tools require modular
format tho), and compile all the required stuff in. You must remove
unneccesary stuff from /etc/modules. Use lspci, things in /proc, and
dmesg to see what hardware you have, after reading the mainboard specs.
Lastly, I'll be very grateful if someone explain and tell me how I can
trace the failure in the following bit of boot message:
usb.c: registered new driver hub
uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xbf80, IRQ 11
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xbf20, IRQ 11
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
uhci: loaded successfully
pci [success]
usb
usb [success]
isapnp
isapnp [success]
ide
ide [success]
input
input [failed]
scsi
scsi [success]
done
Cheers.
Try disabling some usb modules and see what happens.
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