linux modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting sonypi
I am trying to set up the screen saver on one of my non-root user ids and the screen freezes up. When I re-boot and look in the log, I see the following message -- linux modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting sonypi (lib/modules/2.6.11.4-29.9-default/kernel/drivers/char/sonypi.k0): No such device Not sure what the heck the system is trying to do, but I do not have a sony device on this machine (as far as I know). The CD DVD-R device is a Samsung. That's the only multimedia device I have. I went into packages and searched for sony and got no hits, so it would appear I haven't installed any Sony related packages. Maybe this is just used generically, but, if so, something is sure going haywire. Anyone else seen this or is there some general solution you can apply? If that module is only for use with Sony products, can I just delete the module? Any help greatly appreciated. Greg Wallace
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I am trying to set up the screen saver on one of my non-root user ids and the screen freezes up. When I re-boot and look in the log, I see the following message --
linux modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting sonypi (lib/modules/2.6.11.4-29.9-default/kernel/drivers/char/sonypi.k0): No such device
Not sure what the heck the system is trying to do, but I do not have a sony device on this machine (as far as I know). The CD DVD-R device is a Samsung. That's the only multimedia device I have. I went into packages and searched for sony and got no hits, so it would appear I haven't installed any Sony related packages. Maybe this is just used generically, but, if so, something is sure going haywire. Anyone else seen this or is there some general solution you can apply? If that module is only for use with Sony products, can I just delete the module? Any help greatly appreciated.
Greg Wallace
Looks like this is screen-saver specific. I changed to a different screen saver and everything is fine. Maybe some of those modules do call-outs to modules even though they don't exist. Then again, if that module shouldn't be called, maybe I should get rid of it. It being in a ...kernel/drivers... directory, maybe I should just leave well enough alone(?). Greg Wallace
On Wednesday, September 14, 2005 @ 12:22 AM, I wrote:
I just wrote:
I am trying to set up the screen saver on one of my non-root user ids and the screen freezes up. When I re-boot and look in the log, I see the following message --
linux modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting sonypi (lib/modules/2.6.11.4-29.9-default/kernel/drivers/char/sonypi.k0): No such device
Not sure what the heck the system is trying to do, but I do not have a sony device on this machine (as far as I know). The CD DVD-R device is a Samsung. That's the only multimedia device I have. I went into packages and searched for sony and got no hits, so it would appear I haven't installed any Sony related packages. Maybe this is just used generically, but, if so, something is sure going haywire. Anyone else seen this or is there some general solution you can apply? If that module is only for use with Sony products, can I just delete the module? Any help greatly appreciated.
Greg Wallace
Looks like this is screen-saver specific. I changed to a different screen saver and everything is fine. Maybe some of those modules do call-outs to modules even though they don't exist. Then again, if that module shouldn't be called, maybe I should get rid of it. It being in a ...kernel/drivers... directory, maybe I should just leave well enough alone(?).
Greg Wallace
I did a - lsmod modprobe -r sonypi.ko That seems to have fixed it. So far, so good. Greg Wallace
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