Am Wednesday 09 March 2005 05:42 schrieb Aaron Frerichs: > I have a new Asus M5N laptop on which I installed Debian Linux. It > works nearly perfectly, except that it hangs for about 10-20 seconds > after I have been using KDE for around 2-3 minutes. I checked > /var/log/message and /var/log/syslog, and it seems to be trying to load > a bunch of cdrom modules, that I don't need. > > Anybody have a clue as to what program is trying to load these modules? > And then, anyone have a way to stop the program from trying? > > Here is a sample from /var/log/messages > > Mar 6 21:57:12 noire kernel: Did not find a Sony CDU-535 drive > Mar 6 21:57:12 noire kernel: sbpcd-0 [01]: sbpcd.c v4.63 Andrew J. > Kroll [snip] Usually this is caused by discover, which does automatic hardware detection, and these modules are needed for some older CD-ROMs, which cannot be detected by other means than loading all possible drivers and seeing, if the driver manages to detect a device. Try removing discover (apt-get remove discover) and see if that fixes it. I have never really needed automatic hardware detection at boot or runtime, so I usually remove that as one of the first steps after install... Patrick -- Patrick Dreker GPG KeyID : 0xFCC2F7A7 (Patrick Dreker) Fingerprint: 7A21 FC7F 707A C498 F370 1008 7044 66DA FCC2 F7A7 Key available from keyservers
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