[gentoo-amd64] Re: another "little" problem appeared (ATI driver/direct rendering/kernel)

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Michel Merinoff <mike_merinov@yahoo.co.uk> posted
455AC899.3030908@yahoo.co.uk, excerpted below, on  Wed, 15 Nov 2006
10:58:17 +0300:

> Hm. I found, that when I run 'make && make modules_install' it permanently
> set CONFIG_IOMMU to yes, even if I unset it manually before. How do I
> avoid it?

By manually you mean editing the .config file directly?  If so, you must
run make old-config to update everything else before running a make, or
it'll use the old settings.  The .config file is simply a nicely portable
way to package up all the settings in one place, but the build system
doesn't normally use it until you import it using make oldconfig, updating
the multitude of settings in the multitude of locations that the build
system normally uses.

If that forces it on as well, then you have something else configured on
that requires it, somewhere.  Perhaps grepping the sources?  I don't know
where all the help texts are saved or I'd suggest grepping them only since
they tell what dependencies they set and the like.

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