I'm running Debian unstable with Kernel 2.6.6-2-K7

As my system loads the drivers and activates it devices during startup I see a few failures and items that I'd just prefer not to load at all. How do I customize what is loaded at startup? Is it a Kernel thing or is there just a simple file I can edit somewhere? I want to get rid of the errors and speed up my boot. Also is there a log made at startup that I can view to see exactly what failed and everything? I'm mainly interested in a GUI means of doing this since I still suck with the command line thing, lol.

Oh, off topic a little bit, using KDE 3.2.3, when I click once on a desktop icon it not only becomes active like it should but for some reason the color of the icon it's self goes to some wierd infra-red type looking color spectrum. How do I fix that? Is it a visual setting someplace?

Thanks!

Well to edit the startup scripts that are started Sys-V init editor. Under the system menu in KDE ( Its usually installed by default. )

To edit the modules the kernel loads, theres a ncurses program ( I don't know of a full GUI ) that you can run as root. start konsole su to root and type modconf, This provides you with a list of modules that will be put into the kernel, ones with crosses next to them are installed. just press enter over the ones you want to remove.

It will try to remove if they can't be ( usually becaus something else depends on them, or their in use ) then you proabably need them anyway,

Thanks for the quick reply.

I installed modconf using synaptic and ran in through terminal as the root. Everytime I select a module to remove I get an error saying it's in use. For example I started by trying to remove a SCSI module since I have nothing SCSI at all.

Well this makes since because of course all things I'm going to want to remove would be loaded because they were at startup. So then how the heck do I like "unload" or whatever the modules I want to remove so they are not in use when I try and remove them?

The scsi module is needed by all the other scsi stuff, so you have to uninstall the other first. You still might be using SCSI if you have a CDR/W thats using SCSI-IDE.

I see, now I am getting the hang of it.

Now then how come when I try and install a specific driver module that I know I need that isn't already, I get an error saying that like it doesn't exist even though it was offered in the menu?

And do I review me startup to see exactly what failed, it goes by just quickly during boot to see it all or write them down...

Well that depends whether Linux can see it.

For instance take sound, if an OSS driver is still installed the ALSA driver won't see the device as its already taken. So make sure if your installing a driver of one type you've already removed the others of that type. Something similar can happen though, when one driver is made apart of the kernel at compile time, so you can't remove it ( It won't be listed in modconf ).

Also somethings need to be installed before others. Although usually the module tools are pretty good and solving dependancies there not AI so if something can't be installed because of conflicts, ( i.e somethings in the way ) amthing that depends on it also can't be installed.

Every module for the running kernel is listed in the menu, its not a least of what compatible.

Use the command
dmesg | less
to see kernel messages also check the files /var/log/syslog, /var/log/messages and /var/log/kern.log I can't remeber which as mine are all filled with firewall messages.

Got it, thanks!

Just got to know how to be able to review my startup to see what failed now...

You edited yours, I edited mine

Sweet, thanks!

Any thoughts on the discoloration of the desktop icons in KDE I mentioned in my first post by any chance?

I logged into 3.2 to check this out I'm getting it as well, I think theres a problem in the underlying X/KDE which is making this not work properly, Check the control centre Appearance & Themes->Style Effectes tab, and look at the K in the menu transparency setting. It seems to be doing something similar. Its not appearing in my compiled CVS.

Maybe change the effect in Icons try gamma, or transparency settings instead.