I have a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.04 on an Acer Aspire 9110 laptop. Previous versions of Ubuntu (& derivatives) have been fine, but this one takes forever to boot. Here is an excerpt from dmesg:
As you can see, there is a 3 minute wait whilst the lp module searches for devices. I believe that lp is associated with parallel ports, but I don't have any.Code:[ 11.110893] EIP: [<f7fa52c0>] saa7134_board_init2+0x140/0x710 [saa7134] SS:ES P 0068:f619bc54 [ 11.110906] ---[ end trace 9bd66193deb28a9c ]--- [ 11.500080] Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -341257333 ns) [ 11.588074] usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 [ 11.759586] usb 4-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [ 11.790916] Bluetooth: Generic Bluetooth USB driver ver 0.3 [ 11.791032] usbcore: registered new interface driver btusb [ 189.996709] lp: driver loaded but no devices found [ 190.062114] Adding 506008k swap on /dev/sda5. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:5 06008k
I have created a file called 'blacklist-parallel.conf' and placed it in /etc/modprobe.d. The file contains 3 lines:
but lsmod shows that all 3 modules are loaded.Code:blacklist lp blacklist parport blacklist ppdev
How can I prevent this 3 minute search at boot? If I am going about it the wrong way, then please advise. Is this a kernel bug perhaps?
Many thanks in advance.
Cheers, Beastie.
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