Re: MTRR breaking module joystick.o ?=FIXED!

Vasilios F. Hoffman (vhoffman01@mail.wesleyan.edu)
Wed, 31 Mar 1999 05:49:54 -0500 (EST)

> >From the logs the cause of this is clear - the joystick is both compiled
> into the kernel, and attempted to load as a module after the sound card
> is initialized. This, of course, can't work, since the joystick driver
> will try to register major 15 in both cases, and in the second it'll fail.

I was curious about this myself - why it was appearing twice like that. I
had done a lot of kernel recompiles earlier, so I went ahead and took
2.2.5ac1 and did "make clean ; make mrproper", along with wiping out
/lib/modules for kicks. Redid my config, and recompiled with no mtrr but
joystick as a module (as per usual) - installed the modules, etc, and I
went and loaded joystick and joy-gravis by hand. No problems...

So I went back in, did a make clean, included mtrr in my config, and
recompiled and reinstalled everything. Went to put in the modules by hand
(joystick, joy-gravis) and it worked....False alarm.

I guess somehow I skipped a make clean or otherwise ended up with what you
suggested - joystick must have gotten compiled into the kernel, not as a
module. I'm sorry for taking everybody's time - I usually do my best to
isolate any problems/solve them before going to ask for help :)

Sorry about the false alarm,

-V

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