Autoloading/Blacklisting 3th part modules

lixo1 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Sep 2010 Posts: 84

Dear Gentoos,

I'm a little confused about the 3th part modules like fglrx and i.e. Alsa 1.0.23 drivers.

Questions:
1) Every boot the fglrx and many ALSA modules are already loaded! But I never put them in the /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6? How it's possible? Is it done automatically? How can I control them?

2) If I need to blacklist (remove from this autoloader) modules like snd_pcsp, what should I do?

Thank you very much for any kind of explanation.

noisebleed · Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 9:14 am Post subject:

Hi lixo1 (funny nickname, "trash1" ?)

1) Not sure, but maybe Hal is picking up the video driver. About ALSA modules I'm guessing the alsasound initscript is the guilty one.

2) To blacklist modules just add them to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
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lixo1 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Sep 2010 Posts: 84

What about the udev behavior? Maybe it loads all modules?

noisebleed · Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 1:18 pm Post subject:

Yeah, I guess uded does that.

You can find some info about Udev and it's module loading procedures in the Gentoo udev Guide.

Did you tried to blacklist a module and check if it was loaded or not?
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lixo1 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Sep 2010 Posts: 84

lixo1 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Sep 2010 Posts: 84

Strange, I just tried to erase my file /etc/../kernel-2.6 and reboot. Multiple modules are autoloaded.
We observe 2 different outputs from lsmod, but the pc still running very well without all selected.

lsmod without kernel-2.6 modules specification: