Unneeded modules load at startup

Cikotic · 07-07-2004, 06:07 PM

Hi all,
Just a quick question about modules. Is there anyway to stop the loading of a particular module at startup? My computer loads floppy.ko and ohci1394 at startup but since I don't have a floppy drive or a firewire drive, they fail and give a FATAL error message. I was wondering how I could stop these modules from being loaded.

Thank you for your time,
Cikotic.

win32sux · 07-07-2004, 07:16 PM

take a look at /etc/modules.conf

=)

JZL240I-U · 07-08-2004, 04:00 AM

Also, man chkconfig

Cikotic · 07-09-2004, 01:51 PM

/etc/modules.conf:

Code:

alias eth0 sis900
alias usb-controller usb-ohci
alias usb-controller1 ehci-hcd
alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394
alias char-major-195 nvidia
insmod_opt=-f -s
alias sound-slot-0 i810_audio
post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
# Note: for use under 2.6, changes must also be made to modprobe.conf!

I had looked at this file before but don't understand what it's got to do with startup. Should I just comment out the line with ohci1394?
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JZL240I-U, I can read man chkconfig but the command it self doesn't run. I get:
# chkconfig
bash: chkconfig: command not found

help appreciated,
Cikotic

comp12345 · 07-09-2004, 04:13 PM

Use modconf to unload them

Cikotic · 07-09-2004, 05:08 PM

comp12345, no modconf either!!!

comp12345 · 07-10-2004, 03:11 PM

Yeah, it's not available for Red Hat. I haven't had to deal with module configuration files in quite some time. 2.4 kernels relied on /etc/modules.conf for modules configuration. 2.6 kernels switched to /etc/modprobe.conf. You may be able to just comment the relevant entries and run update-modules. In addition, you may have a file called /etc/modules that contains modules to load at startup.

JZL240I-U · 07-12-2004, 06:36 AM

Oops, sorry, I use SuSE, so maybe RH / F doesn't have it. Did you search their site? It is a really easy to use tool, you can name the service, action (on, off, restart) and define for wich runlevel(s)...