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- Frequently Asked Module User Questions
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- Q) I get "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc"
- A) You need to install a development package which contains libc.a.
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- Q) I'm using RedHat and modules don't autoload any more.
- A) Old versions of RedHat turns module autoloading off if /proc/ksyms
- isn't found. Change line 337 of /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit from:
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- if ! grep -iq nomodules /proc/cmdline 2>/dev/null && [ -f /proc/ksyms ]; then
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- to
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- if ! grep -iq nomodules /proc/cmdline 2>/dev/null && [ -f /proc/modules ]; then
-
- Q) Sound doesn't load automatically.
- A) You need to set up an alias (or install command) for "sound-slot-0" in
- /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf: the ALSA sound system sometimes wants this.
-
- Q) What is "[unsafe]" next to the module name in lsmod?
- A) It means someone used an old-style interfaces to try to control this
- module: these are slowly being tracked down and eliminated. You can
- use "rmmod -f" to force removal if you configured your kernel with
- CONFIG_MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD set.
-
- Q) I'm having trouble inserting out-of-tree modules
- A) See kernel source tree documentation: Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt
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