System information

[liku]

Hello,

I'm new to Kubuntu (Debian architecture). Earlier before I was using Gentoo, somehow Debian way of doing things seems for me a bit complicated and not clear, but having poorer hardware made me install something which had good support for precompiled software.
Here are some questions which araised during my use of Kubuntu (which I admit is very well made), if you could direct me where I could find answers or if anybody could answer to any of those questions:

• I don't want certain modules to be loaded - where can I set this up? Or more general: how modules are loaded - which files deciede about this?
• what initrd has to do with start files? After initrd has finished are there any services runnig? The problem is that I must have screwed something and udev is not started properly,

That would be all I thinks. Thanks and bye.

[sky]

Re: System information

Hi,

I'm not sure if my answer will be good, but I will give you my point of view.
- About modules, you should try to recompile the kernel to remove the modules you don't want... It's usually the best way and I don't think that a file is managing this... To compile it, you can search the wiki on kubuntu.org, it's really nicely done
- About initrd, it's done to have bigger support for all hardware possible. When initrd is loaded you have no services running, they are loaded by /etc/init.d

Hope it helped

[askrieger]

Re: System information

The file that determines which modules will be loaded at boot time is /etc/modules. I believe that this is universal, but perhaps I'm wrong. You can also install and remove modules with modprobe. Please take a look at man modprobe and man 5 modprobe.conf