modprobe error message

jmwright52 · 03-26-2003, 07:41 PM

i am using suse 8.0. the console starts and logs errors at start up.
i have been gettin the following message:

linux modprobe: modprobe:can't locate module char-major-226

can anyone tell me what this means.

Thank You

Joe Wright

Texicle · 03-26-2003, 07:58 PM

It sounds like you don't have that module installed on your system, or that it's the wrong name for the module you're trying to load. What are you trying to use the module for?

aherm · 03-26-2003, 10:49 PM

You can check the module name here:
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt

char-major-266 = DRI (Direct Rendering Infrastructure)

Do you have ATI card? This may the problem.
You can dissable the alias in

/etc/modules.conf

alias char-major-226 off

I hope that will work ;-)

Have a lot of fun :-)

jmwright52 · 03-27-2003, 03:19 PM

aherm:

yes i have an ATI AIW Video card. How did you know?

Where do I insert that line in /etc/modules.conf?

Also do you know what the module is that suse is trying to load?

aherm · 03-28-2003, 02:10 PM

ATI use DRI for XFree86 ;-)

check your XF86Config it should contains
Section "DRI"
Group "video"
Mode 0660
EndSection

Insert that line in /etc/modules.conf on the bottom below
##############################################
# AGP
##############################################

The module is that SuSE's kernel is trying to load should be here:
/usr/etc

Don't worry, its not a fatal error ;-)

Have a lot more fun :-)

Texicle · 03-28-2003, 03:40 PM

Thanks for stepping in aherm. I would've never known about the disabling of the alias to prevent that error. Good to know!