Hi, I installed the 2.4.22-1-k7 kernel image. I had the 2.4bf kernel and now I find that a huge amount of kernel modules are bing loaded. I understand that the new kernel probably has more things compiled as modules than the 2.4bf but there are heaps of modules that are unused.
/etc/modules: af_packet 8139too #sound es1371 apm ide-scsi Here is the output of lsmod: Module Size Used by Tainted: P sr_mod 14552 0 (autoclean) cdrom 28672 0 (autoclean) [sr_mod] input 3520 0 (autoclean) agpgart 41272 3 (autoclean) nvidia 1630432 11 (autoclean) parport_pc 23304 1 (autoclean) lp 6816 0 (autoclean) parport 25992 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp] nls_iso8859-1 2876 2 (autoclean) ntfs 53696 2 (autoclean) nls_cp437 4380 2 (autoclean) vfat 10604 1 (autoclean) fat 32152 0 (autoclean) [vfat] ide-scsi 10256 0 scsi_mod 94688 2 [sr_mod ide-scsi] apm 10028 1 es1371 26220 2 soundcore 3972 4 [es1371] ac97_codec 13428 0 [es1371] gameport 1676 0 [es1371] 8139too 15592 1 mii 2464 0 [8139too] crc32 2880 0 [8139too] af_packet 13512 0 (unused) rtc 6792 0 (autoclean) ext2 35456 2 (autoclean) ext3 64324 1 (autoclean) jbd 41928 1 (autoclean) [ext3] ide-detect 10608 0 (autoclean) via82cxxx 10696 1 (autoclean) trm290 2506 0 (autoclean) (unused) triflex 2508 0 (autoclean) (unused) slc90e66 4848 0 (autoclean) (unused) sis5513 11568 0 (autoclean) (unused) siimage 8964 0 (autoclean) (unused) serverworks 8348 0 (autoclean) (unused) sc1200 5264 0 (autoclean) (unused) rz1000 1096 0 (autoclean) (unused) piix 8264 0 (autoclean) (unused) pdc202xx_old 11396 0 (autoclean) (unused) opti621 2604 0 (autoclean) (unused) ns87415 2056 0 (autoclean) (unused) hpt366 15396 0 (autoclean) (unused) ide-disk 16608 7 (autoclean) [hpt366] hpt34x 2536 0 (autoclean) (unused) generic 1960 0 (autoclean) (unused) cy82c693 2124 0 (autoclean) (unused) cs5530 3760 0 (autoclean) (unused) cmd64x 8004 0 (autoclean) (unused) cmd640 2820 0 (autoclean) (unused) amd74xx 9572 0 (autoclean) (unused) alim15x3 7764 0 (autoclean) (unused) aec62xx 6052 0 (autoclean) (unused) adma100 872 0 (autoclean) (unused) pdc202xx_new 8100 0 (autoclean) (unused) ide-core 97656 7 (autoclean) [ide-scsi ide-detect via82cxxx 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] unix 15340 210 (autoclean) Thanks for your help. Cheers Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]