From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dt6CV-0007p3-Eb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:04:39 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6EG39xn026089; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:03:09 GMT Received: from mta07-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (mta07-winn.ispmail.ntl.com [81.103.221.47]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6EFwBuG028027 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 15:58:11 GMT Received: from aamta12-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mta07-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20050714155818.JJUF481.mta07-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamta12-winn.ispmail.ntl.com> for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:58:18 +0100 Received: from zog.reactivated.net ([81.99.81.161]) by aamta12-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20050714155818.DAKO4721.aamta12-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@zog.reactivated.net> for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:58:18 +0100 Received: from [192.168.0.2] (dsd [192.168.0.2]) by zog.reactivated.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 298627BA373 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 17:22:32 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <42D68BB2.2090103@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:58:42 +0100 From: Daniel Drake User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050710) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Interesting install experience References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 695df971-4814-4d91-8763-7b0f6e3a5985 X-Archives-Hash: e4bec5cbdb822c3eb47cf5c225c6ce8d 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list