modprobe Archives

Debian + USB3 HDD + UAS: I/O errors

August 8, 2022 by Magenaut

I’m running rsync to backup a remote machine to a USB hard drive on an ARM SBC and sometimes rsync just stops with “read error from input device (I/O error)”. I believe the issue is related to UAS + USB 3.0 + rsync causing high I/O load, because of uas_eh_device_reset_handler on /var/log/messages:

How to block drivers built-into Kernel, i.e. drivers who are not a module

August 8, 2022 by Magenaut

I configured and compiled Linux kernel with nouveau driver built-into kernel, i.e. with <*> as opposed to <M> when doing make menuconfig inside Linux kernel source directory.

systemd: automate modprobe command at boot time

August 7, 2022 by Magenaut

My distribution is Fedora 17 Gnome.
Every time I reboot/restart my computer I need to run this command as root: