Correct Way To Disable Loading A Module?

[bill g]

On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 15:30:14 +0200, Martin Pitt
<martin.pitt at canonical.com> wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> bill g [2004-10-07  9:19 -0400]:
> > .... but don't know
> > how to avoid loading the other module.  It isn't listed in
> > /etc/modules.
> 
> Then hotplug loads it automatically. If you want to keep hotplug from
> loading a module "foo", then create a new file in
> /etc/hotplug/blacklist.d/ (name does not matter, but take something
> descriptive like 'nvidia') and put "foo" into it.

I built a file called "agpgart" and put "agpgart" in it.  Rebooted,
but the module still loaded. There's another file in that directory,
alsa-base, that's executable, so I made my file executable.  However,
after another reboot, lsmod shows agpgart is still loading.

billg