How to start/stop modules with Debian?

[c-pol]

I don't know how to disable these things, I'm running Debian unstable/2.6.6-1-686.


pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5


Those messages are abbreviated by dmesg. To compare, I've run Debian stable and it boots up so much faster! None of this hotplug stuff which I think slows boot-time down.

EDIT: In gentoo you do rc-update module add/remove. Is there an equivalent in Debian?

[XiaoKJ]

err .. you do not rc-update modules in gentoo, you add it to modules.autoload.d in /etc/ and maybe debian has it too.

I think it does not slow down the boot time with this.

[clw54]

Look at /etc/modules and see if they're listed. That's the file that determines which modules are loaded at boot. If you don't want them loaded at boot time, comment them out or remove them.

[bwkaz]

Hotplug is what's slowing your boot down, not the nonexistant modules. ;)

It takes a while to scan the machine for which PCI cards are plugged in. You can disable hotplug if you really think that's a good idea, but you won't be able to hotplug USB stuff (and it might break udev, if your Debian installation uses udev).

[laceupboots]

Hi clw54. :)