Re: gspcav1 driver problems

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On Wednesday 14 March 2007, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 12:20:58AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Anne Wilson wrote:
> > >A few days ago a kernel update took out the gspcav1 driver and the
> > >accompanying kmdl package.  At present the atrpms version can't be
> > >installed:
> > >
> > >Error: Missing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 is needed by
> > >package gspcav1-kmdl-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6
> > >
> > >Is a build for 2.6.19 kernels in the pipeline, or should I build from
> > >source?
>
> It is already available since a coule of days at ATrpms. Either
> install the yum-plugin-kmdl or simply do
>
> yum install gspcav1-kmdl-`uname -r`
>
Hmm - I had been trying each day, but not realising that I should give it the 
`uname -r` ending.

> > You could possibly use the DKMS module from freshrpms.net and avoid this
> > issue since DKMS auto builds against the new kernel on bootup. On the
> > other hand DKMS would require compiler and related tools to be installed
> > on your system.
>
> And lacks reproducability in case the build went wrong, which makes
> kernel module debbugging even more difficult.
>
> (the main reason kernel folks at RH object to having kernel modules
> packaged in any format whatsoever is the issues with dealing with user
> bug reports on kernel/kernel modules)

OK - got it, Axel.  Is that all I need?  I thought that originally I had a 
separate gspcav1 package.  Sorry if it's a dumb question, but I've already 
admitted that I don't understand this :-)

Anne


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