Too Many Modules loaded

[haidara]

Hello,

I have installed Knoppix on the harddrive, things are working OK, but I have noticed that there are too many modules loaded (using lsmod), most of them are not used. I know those were probably needed to autodetect the hardware but is there any way to prevent them from loading.. here is the output of my lsmo:

[knoppix@compaq knoppix]$ lsmod | sort
8139too                15816   0 (unused)
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
ac                      1824   0 (unused)
ac97_codec             13556   0 [i810_audio]
adma100                  840   0 (autoclean) (unused)
aec62xx                 5988   0 (autoclean) (unused)
af_packet              13640   0
agpgart                41752   1
alim15x3                7764   0 (autoclean) (unused)
amd74xx                10084   0 (autoclean) (unused)
autofs4                 9876   0 (unused)
battery                 5760   0 (unused)
cdrom                  29152   0 (autoclean) [sr_mod ide-cd]
cmd640                  2916   0 (autoclean) (unused)
cmd64x                  8004   0 (autoclean) (unused)
crc32                   2912   0 [8139too]
cs5530                  3728   0 (autoclean) (unused)
cy82c693                2156   0 (autoclean) (unused)
ds                      7060   1 [orinoco_cs]
ext3                   65188   1 (autoclean)
fan                     1632   0 (unused)
fat                    32088   0 [msdos]
fbcon-cfb16             4168   0 (autoclean) [vesafb]
fbcon-cfb24             4456   0 (autoclean) [vesafb]
fbcon-cfb32             3816   0 (autoclean) [vesafb]
fbcon-cfb8              3560   0 (autoclean) [vesafb]
generic                 1928   0 (autoclean) (unused)
hermes                  6020   0 [orinoco_cs orinoco]
hid                    21892   0 (unused)
hpt34x                  2504   0 (autoclean) (unused)
hpt366                 15492   0 (autoclean) (unused)
i810_audio             24476   1
ide-cd                 32448   0 (autoclean)
ide-core               98968   2 (autoclean) [ide-cd ide-detect trm290 triflex slc90e66 sis5513 siimage serverworks sc1200 rz1000 piix pdc202xx_old opti621 ns87415 hpt366 ide-disk hpt34x generic cy82c693 cs5530 cmd64x cmd640 amd74xx alim15x3 aec62xx adma100 pdc202xx_new]
ide-detect             10832   0 (autoclean)
ide-disk               16800   2 (autoclean) [hpt366]
input                   3648   0 [hid mousedev]
jbd                    42340   1 (autoclean) [ext3]
lp                      7168   0 (autoclean)
mii                     2496   0 [8139too]
mousedev                4340   1
msdos                   6124   0 (unused)
nls_iso8859-1           2844   0 (unused)
ns87415                 2056   0 (autoclean) (unused)
ntfs                   54624   0 (unused)
opti621                 2668   0 (autoclean) (unused)
orinoco                35668   0 [orinoco_cs]
orinoco_cs              4596   1
parport                26568   1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
parport_pc             23816   1 (autoclean)
pcmcia_core            47200   0 [orinoco_cs ds yenta_socket]
pdc202xx_new            7972   0 (autoclean) (unused)
pdc202xx_old           11460   0 (autoclean) (unused)
piix                    8328   1 (autoclean)
processor               8344   0 [thermal]
radeon                 80884   0
rtc                     6792   0 (autoclean)
rz1000                  1064   0 (autoclean) (unused)
sc1200                  5264   0 (autoclean) (unused)
scsi_mod               95360   1 (autoclean) [sr_mod]
serverworks             8348   0 (autoclean) (unused)
siimage                 9092   0 (autoclean) (unused)
sis5513                11792   0 (autoclean) (unused)
slc90e66                4848   0 (autoclean) (unused)
soundcore               3940   2 [i810_audio]
sr_mod                 14776   0 (autoclean) (unused)
thermal                 6276   0 (unused)
triflex                 2476   0 (autoclean) (unused)
trm290                  2506   0 (autoclean) (unused)
unix                   15532 106 (autoclean)
usb-uhci               23696   0 (unused)
usbcore                63468   0 [hid usb-uhci]
vesafb                  9992  63 (autoclean)
yenta_socket           10816   1

thanks

[Dave_Bechtel]

--Good Lord... I've never seen that many modules loaded that didn't need to be. As root, edit /etc/modules and '#' comment out the ones you don't need. I did this for things like ntfs and xfs that I'll never use.

Hello,

I have installed Knoppix on the harddrive, things are working OK, but I have noticed that there are too many modules loaded (using lsmod), most of them are not used. I know those were probably needed to autodetect the hardware but is there any way to prevent them from loading.. here is the output of my lsmo:

[knoppix@compaq knoppix]$ lsmod | sort
8139too                15816   0 (unused)
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
ac                      1824   0 (unused)
ac97_codec             13556   0 [i810_audio]
adma100                  840   0 (autoclean) (unused)
aec62xx                 5988   0 (autoclean) (unused)
af_packet              13640   0
agpgart                41752   1
alim15x3                7764   0 (autoclean) (unused)
amd74xx                10084   0 (autoclean) (unused)
autofs4                 9876   0 (unused)
battery                 5760   0 (unused)
cdrom                  29152   0 (autoclean) [sr_mod ide-cd]
cmd640                  2916   0 (autoclean) (unused)
cmd64x                  8004   0 (autoclean) (unused)
crc32                   2912   0 [8139too]
cs5530                  3728   0 (autoclean) (unused)
cy82c693                2156   0 (autoclean) (unused)
ds                      7060   1 [orinoco_cs]
ext3                   65188   1 (autoclean)
fan                     1632   0 (unused)
fat                    32088   0 [msdos]
fbcon-cfb16             4168   0 (autoclean) [vesafb]
fbcon-cfb24             4456   0 (autoclean) [vesafb]
fbcon-cfb32             3816   0 (autoclean) [vesafb]
fbcon-cfb8              3560   0 (autoclean) [vesafb]
generic                 1928   0 (autoclean) (unused)
hermes                  6020   0 [orinoco_cs orinoco]
hid                    21892   0 (unused)
hpt34x                  2504   0 (autoclean) (unused)
hpt366                 15492   0 (autoclean) (unused)
i810_audio             24476   1
ide-cd                 32448   0 (autoclean)
ide-core               98968   2 (autoclean) [ide-cd ide-detect trm290 triflex slc90e66 sis5513 siimage serverworks sc1200 rz1000 piix pdc202xx_old opti621 ns87415 hpt366 ide-disk hpt34x generic cy82c693 cs5530 cmd64x cmd640 amd74xx alim15x3 aec62xx adma100 pdc202xx_new]
ide-detect             10832   0 (autoclean)
ide-disk               16800   2 (autoclean) [hpt366]
input                   3648   0 [hid mousedev]
jbd                    42340   1 (autoclean) [ext3]
lp                      7168   0 (autoclean)
mii                     2496   0 [8139too]
mousedev                4340   1
msdos                   6124   0 (unused)
nls_iso8859-1           2844   0 (unused)
ns87415                 2056   0 (autoclean) (unused)
ntfs                   54624   0 (unused)
opti621                 2668   0 (autoclean) (unused)
orinoco                35668   0 [orinoco_cs]
orinoco_cs              4596   1
parport                26568   1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
parport_pc             23816   1 (autoclean)
pcmcia_core            47200   0 [orinoco_cs ds yenta_socket]
pdc202xx_new            7972   0 (autoclean) (unused)
pdc202xx_old           11460   0 (autoclean) (unused)
piix                    8328   1 (autoclean)
processor               8344   0 [thermal]
radeon                 80884   0
rtc                     6792   0 (autoclean)
rz1000                  1064   0 (autoclean) (unused)
sc1200                  5264   0 (autoclean) (unused)
scsi_mod               95360   1 (autoclean) [sr_mod]
serverworks             8348   0 (autoclean) (unused)
siimage                 9092   0 (autoclean) (unused)
sis5513                11792   0 (autoclean) (unused)
slc90e66                4848   0 (autoclean) (unused)
soundcore               3940   2 [i810_audio]
sr_mod                 14776   0 (autoclean) (unused)
thermal                 6276   0 (unused)
triflex                 2476   0 (autoclean) (unused)
trm290                  2506   0 (autoclean) (unused)
unix                   15532 106 (autoclean)
usb-uhci               23696   0 (unused)
usbcore                63468   0 [hid usb-uhci]
vesafb                  9992  63 (autoclean)
yenta_socket           10816   1

thanks