On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 00:43 +0000, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 00:36:49 +0000, Julien Cristau wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 00:31:53 +0000, Julien Cristau wrote:
> >
> > > I tried to look at how other distributions handle this, and this
> > > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf file seems to be a Debianism. From what
> > > I can tell (looking at the ubuntu archive and a fedora 10 box) other
> > > distros have a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf provided by the hwdata
> > > package, which explicitly blacklists fb drivers, avoiding the above
> > > issue.
> > >
> > Looking again ubuntu's hwdata doesn't install that file, so they
> > probably have something else. Something for another day…
> >
> Their blacklist is here:
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/lucid/module-init-tools/lucid/files/head%3A/debian/modprobe.d/
>
> So they also blacklist explicitly each fb driver.
Except for the firewire stack, their entire blacklist looks nice (and
well commented).
Xav
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