[gentoo-user] Rebuild video drivers after kernel compile?

[gentoo-user] Rebuild video drivers after kernel compile?

[Jeff Grant]

With modular Xorg, do you still need to re-build your video drivers
after every time you re-compile a kernel?

Just wondering...

-Jeff

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Re: [gentoo-user] Rebuild video drivers after kernel compile?

[A. R.]

> 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.

HTH

- AR

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Re: [gentoo-user] Rebuild video drivers after kernel compile?

[Dmitry S. Makovey]

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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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