Re: make-dpkg: flavors and external modules

2002-03-26 Thread Brian Nelson
"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > also sprach Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.03.26.2015 +0100]: > [snip] > > /etc/modules is simply a file listing one module a line to be loaded > > at startup. /etc/init.d/modutils will do the act

Re: make-dpkg: flavors and external modules

2002-03-26 Thread Bill Moseley
At 01:05 PM 03/26/02 -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: >The best way to do this is to use the Debian nvidia-kernel-src and >nvidia-glx-src packages in the contrib/x11 section. At least under >testing and woody that's the best way. Ok, I'll look. Then is there something I need to do when building or ins

Re: make-dpkg: flavors and external modules

2002-03-26 Thread Gary Hennigan
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > also sprach Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.03.26.2015 +0100]: [snip] > /etc/modules is simply a file listing one module a line to be loaded > at startup. /etc/init.d/modutils will do the actual work of loading > the modules according to this fil

Re: make-dpkg: flavors and external modules

2002-03-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.03.26.2015 +0100]: > >depmod -a is run at every boot. > > I though depmod just when through my list of modules to find the > dependencies -- so that if I say load module modprobe foo it would know to > load module bar first, if foo depended on bar

Re: make-dpkg: flavors and external modules

2002-03-26 Thread Bill Moseley
At 07:09 PM 03/26/02 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: >> 2) When installing the package, is there a way to say, just add this to the >> current list of kernels, but don't rotate the current kernel to .old? > >man kernel-img.conf Thanks. >but i usually just undo the change manually, it's quite easy.

Re: make-dpkg: flavors and external modules

2002-03-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.03.26.1755 +0100]: > Something like: > > --append-to-version modular > > and then would I end up with /lib/modules/2.4.17-modular? 2.4.17modular, but yes, it's correct otherwise. i usually use hostnames appended to the version number... >