On 2005-07-10, Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 - > > 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[?]
I'm not qualified to tell you what you should do, but I have just put Sarge on an old PC which had been running Woody, and this is what I have done. I compiled a kernel without hotplug (and kmod) support and put "exit 0" at the beginning of /etc/init.d/discover. Hotplug could also be disabled this way as well. Before doing all this I saved a copy of the output of lsmod so I could refer to it when adding modules to /etc/modules. Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
