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From: Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel option missing - very frustrating...
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2019 04:38:19
Message-Id: ed0e80fd-c6e3-e9c5-6a9b-8a45fc1a8586@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel option missing - very frustrating... by Mike Gilbert
1 On 2019-12-15 12:13, Mike Gilbert wrote:
2 > On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 2:42 PM Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >>
4 >> On 2019-12-15 09:36, Franz Fellner wrote:
5 >>> I can't see CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV in your list.
6 >>
7 >> It's not supposed to be: "=n".
8 >
9 > I think you are reading that incorrectly. VIDEO_DEV [=n] means the
10 > VIDEO_DEV option is required, but you currently have it disabled.
11 >
12
13 Ahh, yes I guess I've been reading it wrong all these years! Oooops.
14 It's amazing I managed to configure a kernel at all for the past 17
15 years. :o)
16
17 VIDEO_DEV was nowhere to be found in menuconfig as a selectable option.
18 But the other choice I made forced it to be selected.
19
20 Dan