diff --git a/modprobe.d/x86info.conf b/modprobe.d/x86info.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b8db628
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modprobe.d/x86info.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/x86info/files/x86info-modules.conf-rc,v 1.2 2004/07/18 04:41:21 dragonheart Exp $
+#
+# Aliases needed for x86info to probe data
+# these are so the modules auto-load as needed
+#
+alias char-major-202 	msr
+alias char-major-203 	cpuid
+alias /dev/cpu/*/msr 	msr
+alias /dev/cpu/*/cpuid  cpuid
diff --git a/paludis/bashrc b/paludis/bashrc
index d4107c4..c8a35bc 100644
--- a/paludis/bashrc
+++ b/paludis/bashrc
@@ -198,6 +198,7 @@ if [[
 	"${CATEGORY}/${PN}" != "games-board/goatee-gtk" &&
 	"${CATEGORY}/${PN}" != "www-client/torbrowser" &&
 	"${CATEGORY}/${PN}" != "dev-util/nemiver" &&
+	"${CATEGORY}/${PN}" != "app-text/aspell" &&
 	"${CATEGORY}" != "dev-haskell"
 	]]
 then