Re: who needs char-major-6?
Hello
Christian Schnobrich (<schnobs@babylon-kino.de>) wrote:
> my syslog shows many comlaints from modprobe, "Can't locate module
> char-major-6" -- every 32 seconds, as it seems.
>
> Some googling told me that char-major-6 is somehow related to the PC
> parallel port. Now, I have nothing whatsoever connected to my parallel
> port.
Yes, seems that is used for parallel ports. You can use
ls -l /dev | grep ' 6,'
to list all devices with major 6.
> How can I find out which process requests modprobe to load c-m-6, so
> that I can perhaps make it stop?
Either load the module for parallel port support, or, if you don't want
it to be loaded, add
alias char-major-6 off
to your /etc/modutils/aliases and run update-modules.
best regards
Andreas Janssen
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