On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 11:38, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: > >> No, that's not the question. I understand that. The question was how > >> would anyone know that the root cause of the depmod problem was > >> having lm_sensors installed in the first place? The error message > >> didn't seem to say lm_sensors anywhere? (Or did I miss it?) > >> > > > > Well from the unresolved symbols one sees that i2c is not installed > > either as modules or in the current running kernel. > > So one goes through everything that could use i2c and there really is > > not that many of those. The most logical choice is lm_sensors. > > Then let me ask the next question. If the unresolved symbols tell me that > i2c is not installed, how do I know (without pre-knowledge of what i2c is > because I'm a novice) which packages might use it? Would it be found by > emerge -s i2c > In this case, no. i2c was part of the kernel compile. I turned it off and got messed up.
I agree that having some way of figuring this out (for novices like you and I) would be really helpful... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
