Thank you very much; it turned out depmod -a was all I needed, the directory in question having been created when I compiled the asi-hpi driver.
Rob On Fri, 21 Oct 2011, Wayne Merricks wrote: > I've just been doing this myself under Squeeze. Thankfully Debian works > without moaning about Kernel Taint like Ubuntu. There were a couple of > small gotchas in the setup. The first being /lib/modules/2.etc/extra > directory doesn't actually exist so you need to create that before make > install. > > After that run depmod -a. Then you can modprobe gpio and it all seems to > work. > > Please note Debian and Ubuntu include the Comedi GPIO libraries and I'm > not entirely sure how well these work together, I know that with Ubuntu I > was trying to blacklist the Comedi modules before I finally gave up on the > GPIO driver under Ubuntu. > > On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 06:35:42 +0100, Rob Landry <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> I've just tried to install gpio-1.1.0 under Debian 6.0 (Squeeze). Per the >> instructions, I run: >> >> ./configure >> >> make >> >> make install >> >> Everything appears to work. I get no error messages. But there's no >> /etc/init.d/gpio file. >> >> There is a /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/extra/gpio.ko, but I can't find any >> way to start it. >> >> The last time I compiled a gpio driver was in 2007. None of the machines >> I've built since then has included a Measurement Computing card until >> now. >> >> It's late. I'll take a look again in the moerning. maybe I've done >> something stupid. >> >> >> Rob >> _______________________________________________ >> Rivendell-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > > ####################### > Scanned by MailMarshal > ####################### > > #################################################################################################################################################################################################################### > > Attention: > > The information contained in this message is confidential and intended for > the addressee(s) only. If you have received this message in error or there > are any problems, please notify the originator immediately. > The unauthorised use, disclosure, copying or alteration of this message is > strictly forbidden. Christian Vision or any of its subsidiaries will not be > liable for direct, special, indirect or consequential damages > arising from alteration of the contents of this message by a third party or > as a result of any virus being passed on. Please note that we reserve the > right to monitor and read any e-mails sent or received by the > company under the Telecommunications (Lawful Business Practice) (Interception > of Communications) Regulation 2000. Christian Vision is registered in England > as a limited company 2842414 and as a charity 1031031 > > #################################################################################################################################################################################################################### > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
