Bob La Quey wrote:
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Gus Wirth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Gus Wirth wrote:
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Except now I'm looking at my newer system (kernel-2.6.25.9) and I don't
see a synaptic module, nor an Alps module either. It seems they changed
things on me without me noticing. I'll have to look around to see what
happened. The first method I gave will work.
It looks like Redhat compiled the mouse drivers directly into the kernel.
Same with Ubuntu. That's why they can't be found anymore. Removing them
would have been the easy fix.
Gus
Is there anything equivalent to man for modules? i.e. a quick
reference for each module?
You can see information about a module with modinfo. For example, to get
some usage information for the Intel e1000 ethernet module you would do:
$ /sbin/modinfo e1000
This only works for an actual module, not for something compiled into
the kernel directly. The information from modinfo isn't that much; it's
a bare minimum of what parameters the module takes when loaded.
The only real authoritative description of a module is the source. Some
modules have better documentation in the source than others.
Surprisingly, most modules tend to be fairly small and you can get the
gist of what they are doing without too much effort if you've poked
around the kernel at all.
Another source of information is in the kernel source under the
Documentation directory. Lots of good stuff there but maybe not what you
need.
Anything in particular you are interested in?
Gus
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