On 05/15/2016 09:11 AM, Alice Wonder wrote:
On 05/15/2016 04:48 AM, Steve Snyder wrote:
How can I completely disable audio drivers and services in my CentOS7 system?
This system is a server that will never run any audio applications. The problem is, I can't disable the audio device in my BIOS, so the system finds it in the PCI device list and configures it on each boot.
Yes, I know I can blacklist specific device driver modules, but I've got a minimum of 11 audio-related kernel modules loaded on a default C7 configuration, and untold dbus baggage to go with them
So.. what can I do to have CentOS7 completely ignore the audio hardware it finds?
If I'm not mistaken, audio hardware is one source of entropy for the kernel.
How can it contribute to entropy without a microphone attached?
Is it causing a problem?
Only to the extent that the resources used to support the audio subsystem could be allocated to services that are actually used.