On Friday 27 June 2008 05:00 am, you wrote: > The file should look like > > blacklist ohci1394 > blacklist uhci_hcd > blacklist ehci_hcd > > Only create it with a PLAIN TEXT editor such as gedit > > MarvS > I created and edited the file with vim as a plain text file. It looks exactly as you show above. Or is the space between blacklist and the module name a tab and not a space? My desktop machine has an extra file in /etc/modprobe.d named sound which contains the following: alias snd-card-0 snd-ymfpci options snd-ymfpci index=0 Elmer > On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 5:35 PM, postid <postid@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wednesday 25 June 2008 12:25 am, you wrote: > >> # slmodem --country=USA --alsa modem:1 > >> > >> But first do: > >> # cat /proc/asound/pcm > >> which ouput should include a line > >> 01-00: Modem something Intel ICH4 > >> > >> If it is not there, there is a resource conflict. Primary candidates > >> would be drivers/hardware sharing the IRQ > >> 11: 135715 XT-PIC yenta, ohci1394, Intel ICH4, ehci_hcd, > >> > >> Try blacklisting these drivers. See > >> http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/bigarch/archive-eighth/msg01842.html > >> on blacklisting guidance. > >> > >> MarvS > >> > >> > On Tuesday 24 June 2008 06:53 pm, Antonio Olivares wrote: > >> >> Many things look fine, you have setup the modem correctly. AT least > >> >> one problem is > >> >> > >> >> /**** scanModem output ****/ > >> >> Modem interrupt assignment and sharing: > >> >> 11: 135715 XT-PIC yenta, ohci1394, Intel ICH4, > >> >> ehci_hcd, uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd, eth2, radeon@PCI:1:0:0, eth0 > >> >> --- Bootup diagnostics for card in PCI slot 0000:00:1f.6 ---- > >> >> ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.6[B] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 > >> >> ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.6[B] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 > > > > Greetings: > > > > I tried creating an /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.local file and listing > > ohci1394 uhci_hcd and ehci_hcd but watching the boot messages go by I saw > > "Ignoring bad line starting with 'blacklist'" multiple times! Indeed it > > did ignore, lsmod shows them loaded. > > > > Any way around this? File blacklist.local has root permissions. Isn't > > that correct? > > > > Elmer