On 28-Jul-2000 Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > That's not the case at all. As some people have mentioned in this thread, > certain proprietary drivers are distrubuted as binary-only kernel > modules. This would obviously not be possible if the whole kernel had to > be rebuilt to use a module. The commercial version of the Open Sound > System is one example of this (or was; I haven't used it since I built a > new machine with an ALSA supported sound card).
I use the OSS commercial driver and was not aware that it is a kernel module. It seems that whenever I have installed a kernel module, I had to recompile the kernel; that is how I was told to do it. *still a newbie* -- Andrew
