From: "Dmitry S. Makovey" <dmitry@athabascau.ca>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: "A. R." <feoymalo@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Rebuild video drivers after kernel compile?
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 09:42:17 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200609070942.17217.dmitry@athabascau.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7e7f5e710609070734i7dbc4ff5u24ce10f8739ee539@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thursday 07 September 2006 08:34, A. R. wrote:
> > With modular Xorg, do you still need to re-build your video
> > drivers after every time you re-compile a kernel?
>
> You have to rebuild those drivers that have been obtained outside
> the "standard" kernel source tree. This applies to all types of
> drivers, not only video drivers, for example:
>
> ati-drivers (video)
> nvidia-drivers (video)
> ipw2100 (wireless)
> ivtv (pvr card)
>
>
> This is is independent from modular X.
better yet - get a habbit of using "module-rebuild" every time after
you run "genkernel" ;)
References:
sys-kernel/module-rebuild
sys-kernel/genkernel
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Dmitry Makovey
Web Systems Administrator
Athabasca University
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2006-09-07 14:08 [gentoo-user] Rebuild video drivers after kernel compile? Jeff Grant
2006-09-07 14:34 ` A. R.
2006-09-07 15:42 ` Dmitry S. Makovey [this message]
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