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On 01/23/11 16:13, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 10:08 AM, <meino.cramer@×××.de> wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> when doing as root |
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>> |
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>> lspci -vk |
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>> |
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>> I get all pci devices and "bus inhabitants" listed. |
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>> Additionally there are often two lines added to each |
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>> device saying similiar things like: |
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>> |
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>> Kernel driver in use: >XYZ> |
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>> Kernel modules: <XYZ> |
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>> and there other devices do not have similiar entries. |
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>> |
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>> My question is: How can I distinguish devices/entities, |
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>> which do not need any driver to work and those, which |
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>> need a driver but in the current setup the driver wasn't |
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>> compiled in/compiled as module? |
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>> |
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>> Thank you very much in advance for any help! |
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>> Best regards, |
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>> mcc |
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> |
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> Devices that need a driver are listed as 'Kernel driver in use:' |
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> whether the driver is compiled in or not. |
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> |
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> Devices that have their driver compiled in do not have the line |
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> 'Kernel modules:' |
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> |
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> Devices that have neither line are controlled by the kernel but don't |
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> need anything from the driver section. |
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> |
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> I suppose there is the possibility that lspci could find a PCI device |
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> which hasn't had a driver selected as module or builtin and then not |
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> show anything. In this case I expect that the device wouldn't |
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> function. |
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> Hope this helps, |
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> Mark |
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> |
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Check out http://www.kernel-seeds.org for a walkthrough of kernel |
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configuration or dump the results of lspci -n into |
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http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/ for a list of modules |
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James Wall |
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