RE: modules for different machines

2009-07-12 Thread Simon Geard
On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 23:42 -0400, Dave wrote: how would the kernel autodetect the new hardware, the audio cards wouldn't be the same, and load appropriate modules? It just would. The kernel knows what hardware is present, and the driver modules know which hardware they support. All that's

RE: modules for different machines

2009-07-12 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:42:54 -0400, Dave dave.meh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Thanks. What i don't think i made clear is i currently have a monolithic kernel running on lfs 6.4. If i made that kernel in to a modular kernel and compiled all the sound drivers as modules, then took that disk

Re: modules for different machines

2009-07-11 Thread David Jensen
On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:40:54 -0400 Dave dave.meh...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm wondering how to do module autoloading? I've got an lfs system that has in it an ES1371 audio card. This machine has a monolithic kernel and i wanted to go modular. If i would dump this lfs to another disk,

RE: modules for different machines

2009-07-11 Thread Dave
-support@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: Re: modules for different machines On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:40:54 -0400 Dave dave.meh...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm wondering how to do module autoloading? I've got an lfs system that has in it an ES1371 audio card. This machine has a monolithic kernel