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Hi!

Does anyone know if there is a graphic tool that allows to rebuild a kernel without certain modules, such as useless drivers and the like?
My skills in compling/recompiling are close to none. This might help me remove useless drivers (Radeon, for one, even NVidia, on the other machines).

Best regards!

(07-22-2020, 07:07 AM)Şerban S. link Wrote: [ -> ]Hi!

Does anyone know if there is a graphic tool that allows to rebuild a kernel without certain modules, such as useless drivers and the like?
My skills in compling/recompiling are close to none. This might help me remove useless drivers (Radeon, for one, even NVidia, on the other machines).

Best regards!

You might want to check and it's probably wise to try first in a VM. However,  this tool won't tweak your current kernel, you may try with modprobe https://linux.die.net/man/8/modprobe to enable/disable modules you don't need/use, althought and AFAIK they'll be loaded/unloaded again after a reboot so you'll have to repeat the process each time. Menuconfig helps in the kernel's building process by providing a GUI to set some parameters. Again, you might want to try this in a VM first and you need to become yourself familiar with kernel parameters. Try reading here

http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTu...NHANCEMENT

https://www.maketecheasier.com/build-cus...el-ubuntu/

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel/Configuration/en

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/

Hope this helps!