On Monday 01 September 2003 03:11 am, Tim Mattson wrote: I dont know too much, I am still learning... But it strikes me as being similar to the behavior of DevFS... When DevFS sees certain /dev entries that need drivers loaded (as defined in /etc/devfsd.conf), it will attempt to load them by modprobing the device. (In the case of a LOOKUP entry with MODLOAD set.. there may be others, I do not know.)
My sound gets loaded in this way... Then, for me there is an alias in my /etc/modules.d/* to convert /dev/whatever to a module name which will run that device. I don't know what might be causing that to come out to the terminal, or that this is necessarily what is going on with your computer, but its worth a look. Emanuel > On second glance, a lot of these are not even modules. Some of them > seem to be random items out of my /dev/ directory. Like /dev/video. > > I found an earlier post with no reply.This is my exact problem: > > i just reinstalled gentoo on this box (after having a pretty good build > for around 6 months until i filled the hard drive up so tight with junk > i could'nt install anymore) so i go to reinstall and it all works fine > and dandy, except that on my first virtual terminal there are modprobe > error messages scrolling by every now and then that say "modprobe: Can't > localte module" and then it will specifiy a name, except the things it > is specifying are not even modules, it just picks stuff out of my /dev > dirrectory and tries to load htem then pipes the output to that terminal > and clutters them, i want to know why it's trying to load these things > as modules (there are many differant devices in dev it will try, most of > the time /dev/apm_bios (which does not even exist...) , but often other > things too), how to stop it, and why it is piping it all out to that > term, anyone know? i dont remember having the problem the last time that > i installed gentoo. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tim Mattson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2003 7:55 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [gentoo-user] Modprobe Errors > > I have newly installed stage1 Gentoo on a Dell Inspiron 8500 laptop. I > used the standard gentoo-sources kernel when compiling. I get bizarre > behavior from modprobe on the root terminal after I log into another TTY > as a standard user. When I log in just as root, I do not see this > error. The error is: > > Modprobe: Can't locate module /dev/vttuner > > Or Can't locate module scd* which is needed for /dev/scd* > > There is about 25 different lines of these error being displayed on the > root terminal screen. They are all different and for items I DID NOT > compile into the kernel, such as APM, VTTuner, Rio500, radio, etc. > > Has anyone seen this? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
