Re: Upon boot, many strange and useless modules are loaded
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 16:30:14 +0200, Darin Strait wrote:
> I have a simple Gateway consumer-grade machine with an i810e motherboard,
> 866MHz/128MB/120MB ide. I am running 2.4.21-2-686. Using grub to boot my old
> 2.4.20 does not help.
>
> I had left the machine running for a few weeks, when I needed to shut it down.
> After rebooting, my USB mouse is frozen upon reaching the KDM login screen.
>
> After a little poking around, I found that all sorts of oddball modules (for
> which I don't have the hardware. serverworks?) had been loaded. After
> manually rmmod-ing them, my mouse unfroze and all was happy.
If you don't need them, add 'alias module off' (for each module) to
/etc/modutils/aliases and run update-modules.
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