[solved] Re: Problems with /etc/modprobe.conf

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> writes:

> Installing the driver for my new printer Samsung ML-1915 (the official
> Samsung driver) created the file /etc/modprobe.conf, containing the following
> stuff:
>
>  options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7 dma=3
>
> Since then, at every boot the following warning message appears:
>
>  /etc/modprobe.conf exists but does not include /etc/modprobe.d!
>
> Besides, in the virtual consoles the characters have got smaller, and a few
> more strange things happen.  So I want to get rid of that file.  But if I
> remove it, or even only append to it the line:
>
>  include /etc/modprobe.d/
>
> , the error message disappear but the printer does not work.  It may have
> something to do with the load of /dev/mfp4, the printer port.


The problem was due to the fact that, following the (wrong) suggestion at:

 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=97460

, I had appended to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist the following line:

 blacklist usblp

Now it is solved removing that line from /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and
appending to /etc/modprobe.conf the following:

  include /etc/modprobe.d/

, as reported above.  Thanks to all and particularly to Stephen Powell.

Rodolfo