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 1Dt954-00068a-74 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:09:10 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6EJ8Asc023686; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:08:10 GMT Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (SMTP.CS.NYU.EDU [128.122.140.230]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6EJ4WtP002268 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:04:32 GMT Received: from localhost.localdomain (ool-4355e59d.dyn.optonline.net [67.85.229.157]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j6EJ4eSu000037 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 15:04:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: by localhost.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1502) id 839F44F39E; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 15:04:35 -0400 (EDT) To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Interesting install experience References: <42D68BB2.2090103@gentoo.org> From: Allan Gottlieb Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 15:04:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: <42D68BB2.2090103@gentoo.org> (Daniel Drake's message of "Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:58:42 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Archives-Salt: 9ca1d6f9-5a57-43ab-98c6-fdc7d4048a11 X-Archives-Hash: db74c1449a54ef8344c801de223962f8 At Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:58:42 +0100 Daniel Drake wrote: > 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. *Very* interesting. Please let us know when the documentation is available. I have build everything into the kernel (including alsa) and so far it is working well, but I haven't stressed audio. What problems should I be looking for and do you advise rebuilding the kernel with alsa as modules even if we don't experience trouble with everything built in? (I should have said all but nvidia built in). allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list