Device Control

[C. Linus Hicks]

On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 16:52 -0500, Chet Ranaweera wrote:
> Does anybody know how to disable a device from the console? I have a
> pci sound card. I would like to know how to disable it temporarily
> thru the console.

You could unload the modules for it - that would disable it. You use
'rmmod <module name>', but with sound cards there's often several
modules involved and you have to consider dependencies and remove them
in the right order. However, there's a good chance your modprobe.conf is
set up for this. Read the man page for rmmod (same function as 'modprobe
-r'), and look at your modprobe.conf.

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C. Linus Hicks <lhicks at nc dot rr dot com>