Preventing loading of modules

[Magnus Therning]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 03:54:20AM +0300, ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY wrote:
>On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 16:27 -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
>> On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 20:12 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
>> > I've just installed Hoary on my laptop. I noticed that the following two
>> > modules get loaded automatically:
>> > 
>> > sony_acpi               6280  0 
>> > pcc_acpi               11264  0 
>> > 
>> > Since the laptop is neither a Sony nor a Panasonic I'd like to prevent
>> > them being loaded. I've put the following in
>> > /etc/hotplug/blacklist.d/local:
>> > 
>> >  sony_acpi
>> >  pcc_acpi
>> > 
>> > I've also put the following in /etc/discover.d/local:
>> > 
>> >  skip sony_acpi
>> >  skip pcc_acpi
>> > 
>> > Still both modules are loaded at boot :(
>> > 
>> > Any ideas?
>> 
>> Try adding them to /etc/hotplug/blacklist.
>> 
>> 
>And if that didn't work (maybe because they are not loaded by hotplug?),

What else besides hotplug and discover loads modules?

>add the following to "/etc/modules":
>        alias sony_acpi off
>        alias pcc_acpi off

I'll give it a try.

/M

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