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On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 17:55, David Mott wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> Firstly let me thank all the developers for a great distro. As this is my |
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> first post I thought I should thank everyone for the effort. |
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> Now to my question. In the nvidia-kernel ebuild, the kernel module is placed |
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> in /lib/modules/{kernel-version}/kernel/video |
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> This means that a recompiled kernel, specifically a make modules_install will |
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> overwrite the NVdriver file in /lib/modules/{kernel-version}/kernel/video |
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> Wouldn't a more appropriate place be /lib/modules/{kernel-version}/video like |
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> the alsa modules go into /lib/modules/{kernel-version}/misc ??? |
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> Just a thought. Have a great day. |
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In my experience they are too kernel specific, and prob wont |
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load. I could be wrong though for new versions. |
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> - -- |
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> David Mott |
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> "The moral of the story is that with a contrived example, you can prove |
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> anything. Oops. No, that's not what I meant to say." -- Joel Spolsky |
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Martin Schlemmer |
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