Re: What is loading module pcspkr (inspite blacklist)?

[Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 20:38:06 -0800
Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 03:25:16PM +1100, John O'Hagan wrote:
> > On Friday 02 February 2007 03:16, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > > Hello Debian Users,
> > >
> > > I thought maybe somebody knows what loads the module pcspkr on a
> > > sid (up to date) with stock kernel 2.6.18-3-686?
> > >
> > > I even blacklisted the module in /etc/modprobe.d/00local (I
> > > blacklisted ipv6 in the same file and it works correctly) and
> > > commented out the relevant entry in /etc/modprobe.d/pnp-hotplug
> > >
> > 
> > Hi Andrei, 
> > 
> > No solution I'm afraid, just a "me too": this came up a little
> > while back here as:
> > 
> > etch : not loading some kernel modules howto ?
> > 
> > No solution was posted at the time; it happens on my etch box too.
> > I found a reference to pcspkr in /etc/udev/persistent-input.rules
> > and commented it out; but that pesky module just won't stay down!
> 
> for the truly inelegant solution, what if you just rename/move aside
> that thing? surely will cause an error, but will it make the whole
> system barf? doubt it. 

In the end I just did that, thinking I could get more clues from an
error message. And guess what, no error messages! Now that's strange...

Regards,
Andrei
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