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From: Ian Hastie <ianh@iahastie.clara.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64]  Re: Re: modules
Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 02:12:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051105021259.75ccbb93@iahastie.local.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan.2005.11.04.20.35.18.345644@cox.net>

On Fri, 04 Nov 2005 13:35:19 -0700
Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote:

> Sebastian Redl posted <436BBEE8.1070303@getdesigned.at>, excerpted
> below, on Fri, 04 Nov 2005 21:04:56 +0100:
> 
> > Duncan wrote:
> > 
> >>You don't need to load /any/ modules at boot, if you compile
> >>everything you'd normally load at boot and never unload, into the
> >>kernel itself, instead of as modules.
> >>  
> >>
> > The single exception here are binary-only modules, usually
> > proprietary drivers. The ATI graphics driver fglrx comes to mind.
> 
> True, except that you shouldn't need to load it /at/ /boot/ either,
> only when you run X.  The rest of the time the normal kernel console
> video driver should be fine.

Which is true unless you run a display manager and log in through
that.  The only hard and fast rule of Linux is that there are no hard
and fast rules.

-- 
Ian.

EOM
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-05  2:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-04 12:40 [gentoo-amd64] modules DR GM SEDDON
2005-11-04 13:49 ` [gentoo-amd64] modules Duncan
2005-11-04 20:04   ` Sebastian Redl
2005-11-04 20:35     ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2005-11-05  2:12       ` Ian Hastie [this message]
2005-11-07  9:42         ` Paul de Vrieze
2005-11-04 21:25   ` [gentoo-amd64] " Steve Herber
2005-11-05  9:24     ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-11-04 22:55 [gentoo-amd64] " Dmitri Pogosyan
2005-11-05  0:05 ` Nuitari
2005-11-05  9:39   ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan

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