Ok….easy one….on my laptop running slackware 9.0 I get errors every time I boot because it is trying to load the joystick port of my sound card and my sound card has none….i know I have the right sound card selected….i recompiled my kernel to remove joystick support in the sound section and it still does this….what do I need to do to keep this piece of the module from trying to load?
Running kernel 2.4.20
Slackware 9.0
IBM ThinkPad a22m
Cs46xx is the soundcard module

Could you please post the output of

lspci -v

for more detail? ;)

Cheers,
Tink

here you go


00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 1.0

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 128
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
I/O behind bridge: 00002000-00002fff
Memory behind bridge: f4200000-f5ffffff

00:02.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1450 (rev 03)
Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 0130
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 11
Memory at 50000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=04, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 10000000-103ff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 10400000-107ff000
I/O window 0: 00004000-000040ff
I/O window 1: 00004400-000044ff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

00:02.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1450 (rev 03)
Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 0130
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 11
Memory at 50100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=00, secondary=05, subordinate=07, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 10800000-10bff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 10c00000-10fff000
I/O window 0: 00004800-000048ff
I/O window 1: 00004c00-00004cff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 0c)
Subsystem: Intel Corp. EtherExpress PRO/100 SP Mobile Combo Adapter
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 11
Memory at f4120000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
I/O ports at 1800 [size=64]
Memory at f4100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

00:03.1 Serial controller: Lucent Microelectronics LT WinModem (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [8250])
Subsystem: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 2205
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 1840 [size=8]
Memory at f4121000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 01)
Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 0153
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at f4122000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

00:07.0 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) (prog-if 80 [Master])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
I/O ports at 1850 [size=16]

00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 1860 [size=32]

00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 03)
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad A20m
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 11
Memory at f5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
I/O ports at 2000 [size=256]
Memory at f4200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [50] AGP version 1.0
Capabilities: [5c] Power Management version 1

From my understanding there should be
two distinct modules, one for sound, one
for joystick... so you should be able to
either recompile your kernel with the
gameport for the cs46xx disabled, or
blacklist the joystick driver in
/etc/hotplug/blacklist

Cheers,
Tink

have already compiled the kernel with joystick disabled, i will try the blacklist....thanks....

Excellent! Thanks Tink! at last i have got rid of the nasty messages at boot telling me i havent got 8139cp (mine's 8139too)....

/etc/hotplug/blacklist.... hmmm why are pci devices loaded using usb loader? is hotplug daemon handling all hardware then?

cheers:~]

hot damn!!! did the trick!!!
thanks again.....you rock!!!

Pleasure mate :}

If it's not TOO much effort, how about an affero?
<hint><hint> ;)

Cheers,
Tink