To hotplug or not to hotplug?

greythorne · 06-07-2005, 12:52 AM

Hi there,

Installations arch linux went fine, during kernel boot when comes to the hotplug its a considerable amount of time to load hotplug. I am not sure whether i need hotplug if i can get rid of hotplug boot up will be much faster.

what are the modules hotplug loads so that i can include them in the rc.conf[daemons]?

and is it possible to disable hotplug yet keep my mouse and mouse scroll wheel work?

i found that if i disable hotplug my mouse did not work at all!

any ideas ppls?

thnx.

cs-cam · 06-07-2005, 02:26 AM

Hotplug, on boot isn't really hotplugging. That's called coldplugging, loading modules for devices already plugged into the system. If you want to disable it from doing that on boot, first you need to boot up with it enabled, run 'lsmod' as root and write down all the modules loaded. Put them into the MODULES array in your rc.conf file and then remove hotplug from the daemons array. If you've done that correctly you can reboot and everything will work as before

greythorne · 06-07-2005, 05:06 AM

great that worked, stopping hotplug aleast make the boot process fast.

thnx.

cs-cam · 06-07-2005, 05:55 AM

Glad to help

Putting a '@' before each daemon in your list will send it to the background rather than waiting for it to start on boot. That way you don't need to wait for it al, such as network interfaces over DHCP which also shaves a coupleo f seconds off the boot time