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From: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Interesting install experience
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:58:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42D68BB2.2090103@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <oq0dd1dre8c0b7eqoca40ilhb0j69i2rge@4ax.com>

Jim Hatfield wrote:
> BTW, what is the received wistom wrt building things into the
> kernel or building them as modules? As well as the G400 I have
> an Intel NIC and a VIA sound card, and this time round chose to
> build them in, though before I built them as modules. I'm not 
> clear as to the pros and cons.

We are writing documentation on this at the moment. With manual configuration,
build everything into the kernel unless you have a reason *not* to. Build ALSA
(sound) as modules, since the ALSA utilities work better with modules.

Daniel
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-07-14 16:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-14 15:27 [gentoo-user] Interesting install experience Jim Hatfield
2005-07-14 15:47 ` Hans-Werner Hilse
2005-07-14 15:58 ` Daniel Drake [this message]
2005-07-14 19:04   ` Allan Gottlieb
2005-07-14 19:33     ` Daniel Drake
2005-07-15  3:26       ` Allan Gottlieb

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