Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4749 mails)

[Trey Gruel <drathos-suse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > if you are recompiling the default suse kernel, the modules_install 
> > part 
> > of the make process cleans out the old modules before installing 
> > the new 
> > ones.  you need to re-install the alsa drivers either by 
> > downloading the 
> > drivers as above, or re-installing the rpm that comes with suse.
> > 
> > any time i recompile my kernel for whatever reason, i have to re-
> > install 
> > the kernel modules for both alsa and my nvidia card.  quick and 
> > simple, 
> > just one more thing i have to remember.
> > 
> 
> Well, I could see where this would be a useful feature, if one were 
> aware of it.  Unfortunately, I wasn't aware of it and did not take 
> appropriate measures.  Is this a feature of the normal linux kernel 
> makefile modules_install, or is it a SuSE tweak?

part of the standard kernel makefile.  suse does make a couple of changes, 
but they are quite usefulle (make oldconfig for example).

-- 
trey