I get them too. But now that you mention the video capture thing, I'm thinking of looking in my XFree864.2 modules for one that supports capture. Or watching the logs as X starts up (or fires off a session). Or, maybe it's part of the printer/sane stuff that RH7.3 forced us to install to get printing working... What about this comment from the sane-devel list ? http://www.mostang.com/pipermail/sane-devel/2001-September/000951.html " If you check the file /etc/modules.conf you will find that char-major-81 is an alias for bttv, the video input driver for bttv based cards. The reason why Sane looks for this module is that you have the v4l (Video4Linux) backend activated in dll.conf. If you want to get rid if these warnings (and make your scanning system potentially more robust) you can comment out all backends in dll.conf but the EPSON backend. " Just an idea. I haven't looked for it on my machine but I seem to remember having to install some sane stuff for some printer stuff (cups?) -- Gerry Skerbitz gsker at tcfreneet.org On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Amy Tanner wrote: > I've noticed on several linux boxes this error in /var/log/messages: > modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-81 [SNIP]