Re: Must I have an `alias char-major-14 off' line?

[Shaul Karl <shaulka@bezeqint.net>]

> On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 01:21:09PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote:
>  
> | Yet I wonder why do I get these lines in the first place? In 
> | particular, I have the following in /etc/modules.conf:
> | 
> | # alias char-major-14             sb 
> | # options adlib_card io=0x388                                  # FM 
> | synthesizer
> | # options sb         io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330
> | # options sbpcd      0x230,SoundBlaster
> 
> These are not "lines", they are comments.  They have no effect
> whatsoever.  Remove the leading '#' character if you want them to be
> actual lines instead of comments.
> 


That is exactly the thing I do not understand. Since those lines are only comments, why does modprobe tries to locate module char-major-14 in the first place? (I do not want any sound.)

The syslog has

Jan  1 11:29:47 rakefet modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module 
char-major-14
Jan  1 11:29:48 rakefet last message repeated 2 times

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