On Du, 15 mai 11, 11:57:49, tv.debian@googlemail.com wrote: > > > > ¹I didn't know how this thingy worked, it is something I never used in > > openSUSE, the distro I was using before coming to Debian. openSUSE should now have DKMS as well[1] > I was a great fan of module-assistant, but since dkms entered Debian I > don't miss m-a ! Give it a try, especially when using custom kernels it > saves a lot of time for more interesting things than compiling modules. > The only downside I see is philosophical, it makes using proprietary > modules far too easy, there used to be some kind of redemption in the > manual compilation suffering ;-) There are still things missing, like #583580 and the ability to build a deb to install on another machine, very useful if one has to install OOT[2] kernel modules on machines which shouldn't/can't have a compiler installed. [1] at least according to Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Kernel_Module_Support [3] Out of Tree Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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