Re: udev blacklisting?
On Wednesday 15 March 2006 17:34, Tim Bates wrote:
> I have a DVB card that stupidly uses the same PCI ID as the bttv cards.
> Loading the bttv module causes a hard lock. I need to prevent this
> module being auto loaded by udev. In the past when hotplug was used, I
> simply added bttv to the /etc/hotplug/blacklist file. udev seems to
> ignore this file and loads the module anyway.
>
> Anyone know where I need to modify things to blacklist it? I've seen
> somewhere that said to list it in the blacklist file, which doesn't do
> anything. Another place said to add "MODULES={!modulename}" to udev's
> rc.conf, but there doesn't seem to be a file by that name, so I'm not
> sure where I'd add that. MODULES is also not mentioned in the manual, so
> I have my doubts about that one.
>
> Tim Bates
Take a look at putting the module name in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist,
as in
blacklist bttv
or something like that.
John
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