disable 'usbcore' and 'uhci' modules on boot...
 

I want to have my slack 9.1 2.4.26 machine as simple and clean as possible. I used swaret up upgrade my kernel (www.swaret.org - a fantastic website!), and upon reboot noticed my 'lsmod' readout had agpgart usbcore and uhci loaded, and I want them not in there...

Would this be something through hotplug? Would I have to disable these modules somewhere in /etc/rc.d/* ?

Help!

I believe it's /etc/rc.d/rc.modules

They're quite useful. The agpgart module is for graphics (what card do you have?) and usbcore/uhci are for usb devices (do you have any?).

If you got the program modconf in there, use that to remove the modules that you don't want..Or insert the ones that you need.. It's a nice ncurses frontend for modprobe.

adz is right :)

you got to have an old pc to skip agpart module, IOW a pc without agp.

I'd recompile the kernel and remove what i don't want/need. But that's me.
*comples a new kernel once a wek or so...*

"If you got the program modconf in there, use that to remove the modules that you don't want..Or insert the ones that you need.. It's a nice ncurses frontend for modprobe."
It should be "pkgtool" if the memory helps me

Thanks for the speedy replies...

I understand the reservation to disable agp and usb, but the machine I'm dealing with is solely for server purposes. USB and AGP functionality just eat more ram and open holes.
I chmodded /etc/rc.d/rc.hotplug to 644 which disabled the automatic probe of a pile of modules, and simple uncommented the line with my appropriate NIC in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules and now I'm clean as a whistle!

Thanks again!

urka58
Well modconf comes with modtools.. Wch i needed to compile the 2.6.* kernel...
Since i'm a debian user i can't say if there's some specials for Slack or Redhat :)
I haven't used slackware since version 3.0 :)