[svlug] Help! - modprobe going crazy (fwd)

[Aaron Lehmann]

On Sun, 29 Nov 1998, Rob Walker wrote:

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> From: Erik Steffl <steffl at bigfoot.com>
> Sender: erik at earthlink.net
> To: rob at varesearch.com
> Subject: Re: [svlug] Help! - modprobe going crazy
> References: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9811291942020.9537-100000 at vitelus.com> <13921.46562.782277.561310 at ws157.varesearch.com>
> 
> Rob Walker wrote:
> ...
> > what you need to do to shut them up is to put a line in your
> > /etc/conf.modules which looks like the following:
> > 
> > alias char-major-6 off
> > 
> > but I *highly* recommend that you find out what char-major-6 *is*, and
> > whether or not you can be secure in turning it off, or whether you
> > need to fix the problem, instead of shutting it up.
> 
>   the char major 6 seems to be a parallel port, if the driver cannot be
> found it means that you (the person who initially asked the question -
> Aaron) have a kernel that does not have this particular driver compiled
> in (or compiled as a module), if you are not planning to use the
> parallel port it is OK to switch it off as Rob suggested, otherwise you
> need to recompilekernel and add support for parallel port (as a module,
> if you want).
> 
>   the fact that you get the complaints suggests that someone is trying
> to use parallel port...
> 
> 	erik
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If you consider a daemon "someone", that is possible. I have never touched
the parallel port, so it appears that some daemon is trying to open it
every minute. Perhaps kerneld is doing it for no apparent reason (bug?
misconfiguration?)


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