[CentOS] Re: How prevent loading of audio driver at boot?

Mon Dec 10 12:59:10 UTC 2007
Kay Diederichs <kay.diederichs at uni-konstanz.de>

Steve Snyder schrieb:
> CentOS v5.1 insists on loading about a dozen audio-related drivers at boot 
> time.  Since this is a server machine, it will never run applications 
> that require sound output.
> 
> I tried setting "alias snd_cs46xx off" in modprobe.conf.  Yet the system 
> still loads that driver and the many, many other audio drivers that go 
> with it.
> 
> How can I disable the loading of audio drivers at boot time?
> 
> Thanks.

I think you can insert the driver(s) into /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

HTH,
Kay