On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 16:30 -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: > On Wednesday, March 23, 2011 16:02:14 WestHurley ComputerReCycling wrote: > > We have some hardware that is poorly supported in Linux. One Example is > > Mac Formatted (HFS+) iPod on Linux. > > http://ipl.derpapst.eu/wiki/Installation_from_Linux_Hfsplus > > Okay -- can you please state the actual problem? The page in the link above > doesn't clearly state it on its own. The problem it mentions has to do with > journaling, and the "fix" suggested is to reformat the iPod without > journaling > support, which a manual driver support doesn't fix. So... huh? > > > Will be running a number of tests on different clean HDDs using this > > hardware and the manual driver installs are tedious and time consuming. > > Any suggestions how to make this more automated?" > > Some packages for external modules use DKMS [Dynamic Kernel Module Support > Framework] as a solution for dealing with this. > > http://linux.die.net/man/8/dkms > http://linux.dell.com/dkms/ > > The good news is that DKMS can auto-build external modules when you rebuild > or > install a new kernel. The bad news is that you need the source installed for > the kernel for it to work, and I believe it builds the kernel as root IIRC. > > For the one case of DKMS that I'm familiar with, kernel source is not needed. When running Fedora on a PC with an nvidia-based graphics card, I use the nvidia driver from the third-party repository RPMFusion. A problem with this is that a new driver is needed every time there is a kernel update, and the new driver is often not available in the repository for several days after the kernel update is released. The nvidia HowTo on Fedoraforum provides a DKMS-based solution for this. When a kernel update is released, DKMS is used to immediately compile a new nvidia driver. I use this approach. Kernel source is not required.
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