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i just reinstalled gentoo on this box (after having a pretty good build for around 6 months until i filled the hard drive up so tight with junk i could'nt install anymore) so i go to reinstall and it all works fine and dandy, except that on my first virtual terminal there are modprobe error messages scrolling by every now and then that say "modprobe: Can't localte module" and then it will specifiy a name, except the things it is specifying are not even modules, it just picks stuff out of my /dev dirrectory and tries to load htem then pipes the output to that terminal and clutters them, i want to know why it's trying to load these things as modules (there are many differant devices in dev it will try, most of the time /dev/apm_bios (which does not even exist...) , but often other things too), how to stop it, and why it is piping it all out to that term, anyone know? i dont remember having the problem the last time that i installed gentoo.
You could check /etc/modules.conf to see if that is where the commands are being issued to load all these things. If so you can comment out the superfluous commands.
i looked there, and looked through /etc/modules.autoload to see if anything looked funky but none of the things i was seeing were specifically mentioned in either of those files, when i start X is when a LOT of them come up like 50 or so /dev devices fly by being tried to load as modules and half of them dont even exist, i assume all of this is also slowing things down somewhat as well.
I have the exact same problem after reinstalling Gentoo. I looked on the bug list to try to find the solution. I couldn't find a bug reporting this problem. Could you give the bug number?
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