On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 19:22:05 +0100 (CET), Peter Gantner wrote: > Now if one emerges a third-party modules, like the NVIDIA kernel > driver, emerge moves the module to the /lib/modules/<version> dir of > the current kernel, that is, the one the /usr/src/linux symlink points > to.
> After that, in the automatic emerge clean, the module which was last > installed gets removed. > > IMO, this behaviour is undesireable, because next time you boot > another kernel, the nvidia.o module will be missing, and you have to > emerge again. > rinse. > repeat. > oh boy, yeah, this is very frustrating. i experienced this myself. > I have not checked, but I assume the same is true for other modules, > like lm_sensors, v4l, emu10k1 etc. nope, only happends with the nvida stuff. ive never lost my vmware or soundcard modules that way. > Should I file a bug for this? yes please! file the bug for the nvida-kernel ebuild. that would be the 3xxx version for me. alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
