From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ph6CY-0007lB-Qo for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 20:06:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D1406E08FC; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 20:03:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A42ABE098F for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 20:03:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35A211B4059 for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 20:03:41 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.879 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.879 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.280, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id L+8y3g8m79Qw for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 20:03:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE9FB1B4006 for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 20:03:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ph69n-0005kA-Ox for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 21:03:27 +0100 Received: from adsl-69-234-182-203.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.182.203]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 21:03:27 +0100 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-182-203.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 21:03:27 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Identifying missing modules... Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 12:03:09 -0800 Message-ID: References: <20110123180815.GC4486@solfire> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-182-203.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0b10pre) Gecko/20110121 Thunderbird/3.3a2 In-Reply-To: <20110123180815.GC4486@solfire> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 96848f0196c093b4a3ffb813a153fae1 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.