remove a module entirely from the kernel

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Hi, I'm having problems to update a module (fglrx), I'm trying to install an update but the old module it doesn't erase from the kernel, first I unistalled the deb packages, then use modprode and after I used lsmod and it doesn't show but after reboot I did a lsmod and it still there,

could you tell me the correct way to eliminate that module?

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Re: remove a module entirely from the kernel

Submitted by hildebrand_us on Sun, 2008-07-13 02:18.

I think basically you don't want old one to load right?
You can blacklist that module so that it doesn't load. Its already installed so removing the deb package may not help. (/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist is the file to put the name in). However the module shall still be there. (You could remove it if thats what you want)

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