From: walt <w41ter@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Identifying missing modules...
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 12:03:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ihi1i3$ofg$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110123180815.GC4486@solfire>
On 01/23/2011 10:08 AM, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
>
> Hi,
> My question is: How can I distinguish devices/entities,
> which do not need any driver to work and those, which
> need a driver but in the current setup the driver wasn't
> compiled in/compiled as module?
Well, this is quick and dirty and you won't learn much about
kernel modules, but it will most likely work very easily.
Get the latest gentoo installation CD (it really can be any
linux install CD as long as it's recent) and boot it in the
machine you're having trouble with.
The reasoning is the install CD will already have *every*
driver available, and the kernel will load the drivers it
needs for your particular machine.
So, once the CD is booted, just figure out how to get a
console going and type lsmod. Write down anything that
looks related to sound, and build your own kernel with
those drivers enabled.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-23 20:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-23 18:08 [gentoo-user] Identifying missing modules meino.cramer
2011-01-23 20:03 ` walt [this message]
2011-01-24 3:25 ` [gentoo-user] " meino.cramer
2011-01-23 20:03 ` [gentoo-user] " Alan McKinnon
2011-01-23 22:13 ` Mark Knecht
2011-01-25 4:13 ` James Wall
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