Re: error message at gpilotd initialization

[Matt Davey <mcdavey mrao cam ac uk>]

Hi again,

On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 23:01 +1000, Andrew Greig wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 07:37 -0700, Landis McGauhey wrote:
> > Andrew, thanks, that did it!  JPilot is now good to go.  Now, please
> > bear with me here as this is uncharted territory for me-- do I need to
> > write a shell script for init so this is done at every boot, or is
> > doing it once permanent?
> > 
> > Thanks again,
> > 
> > Landis McGauhey
> > North-Central California USA
> > 
> Hi Landis,
> 
> I use Mandriva 2009 and for me it is just a matter of firing up  Konsole
> as root, and then using mc with its marvellous editor to edit
> the /etc/modprobe.d/visor file  by adding a hash before the only line in
> the file which may be: 
> 
> blacklist visor
> 
> thus:
> 
> # blacklist visor 
> 
> hit F2 and save and exit.

On ubuntu (8.04) the corresponding file is /etc/modprobe.d/libpisock9.

grep visor /etc/modprobe.d/*

> If you do not have an /etc/modprobe.d/visor file then see if you have
> an /etc/modprobe.preload file and edit that.  Here is what mine looks
> like:
> 
> [andrew andrew etc]$ cat /etc/modprobe.preload
> # /etc/modprobe.preload: kernel modules to load at boot time.
> #
> # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are
> # to be loaded at boot time, one per line.  Comments begin with
> # a `#', and everything on the line after them are ignored.
> # this file is for module-init-tools (kernel 2.5 and above) ONLY
> # for old kernel use /etc/modules
> 
> nvidia_agp
> [andrew andrew etc]$
> 
> In this case I would just add visor underneath the nvidia line and hit
> return and then save.
> 
> No script necessary in Mandriva but I cannot answer for other distros.
> 
> Andrew Greig


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