hansaad
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Joined: May 2006 |
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Posted: May 17 2006,15:56 |
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Hello, I'm amazed at how well my old computer (specs in sig) has taken to DSL. Yet, I want to further speed up boot time, free as much memory as possible, and generally optimize what I can.
A few startup kernel messages that I notice from running dmesg:
| Quote | | PCI: System does not support PCI |
| Quote | SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno=2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno=2 |
| Quote | usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 19:48:59 Apr 17 2004
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usb.c: deregistering driver usbdevfs
usb.c: deregistering driver hub
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb.c: deregistering driver usbdevfs
usb.c: deregistering driver hub
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(floppy, cloop)
...
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers |
After logging in, the lsmod command reports the following modules as "unused":
mousdev
hid
input (mousdev and hid depend on it, so I assume it is unused as well)
usbcore
cloop
ide-cd
ide-scsi
This seems correct to me, as I have no mouse, no usb, no cd-rom or scsi (just a floppy). I've used rmmod on the modules in question without error or other consequence. Yet, after every reboot, the same modules are in place again, and I suspect they are also taking up boot time in addition to system resources. I have no future plans to modify the hardware or software on this, other than getting a PCMCIA Network Card (wired).
How do I remove these and keep the changes permanent?
My guess is it involves recompiling the kernel, but I am unsure.
Also, I've commented out a portion of /etc/rcS.d/S00knoppix-autoconfig (the line is "ldconfig; depmod -a 2>/dev/null") because it helped a lot to speed up booting. Is this something I should do? I'm not quite certain if it's necessary or not...
Any other tips on how to speed up DSL? Any help will be greatly appreciated - this laptop would have otherwise met a junkyard fate.
Thanks.
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My DSL Project:
Toshiba Satellite T1960CT
Intel 486 DX/2
12MB RAM
340MB HD
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