> > On the subject of disabling kernel module loading on SunOS 4.1.x: > several people asked me what the side effects of this might be. I > researched it; and the answer appears to be that what the user gives > up, so far as supported vendor software, is the ability to run > OpenWindows with the "-nosunview" option. > > That is, if you disable loadmodule, or modload, or the loading of > modules, the kernel will not be able to load keyboard and mouse > drivers on the fly that the server usually relies on the sunview > code to supply. I don't understand this, perhaps because I'm not an OpenWindows user. Are you saying that a subset of OpenWindows requires dynamic device driver support, but the whole of it doesn't? The real question is: can you link these drivers in in a permanent fashion when you build your 4.1.X kernel, and then disable all dynamic loading and unloading, or does the act of loading/unloading these particular drivers have an active side-effect that means you can't do this? -- Jeff Smith, Computer Science, Warwick University, Coventry, CV4 7AL, England jeff@dcs.warwick.ac.uk phone: +44 203 523485 fax: +44 203 525714