From: "A. R." <feoymalo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Rebuild video drivers after kernel compile?
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 10:34:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7e7f5e710609070734i7dbc4ff5u24ce10f8739ee539@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <450027D2.8030200@voicesignal.com>
> 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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-07 14:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-07 14:08 [gentoo-user] Rebuild video drivers after kernel compile? Jeff Grant
2006-09-07 14:34 ` A. R. [this message]
2006-09-07 15:42 ` Dmitry S. Makovey
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