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1. By the way, how do the drivers built into the Linux kernel work?
2. When you select the options in the setup program is the kernel compiled according to your preferences?
3. What happens if you need to change anything?
4. With my winmodem driver the installation script asked me to install the development tools together with the kernel source, is this normal?
1. The drivers aren't built into the kernel (at least not usually). They're compiled as modules that can be dynamically loaded and unloaded as required.
2. No.
3. You recompile it, but it's not especially likely you will need to change anything.
4. Yes.
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Another thing I have to bitch about is what's with all these different desktops, software written for one often doesn't work in a different desktop, isn't this a standards problem?
Sometimes I don't even get any error message, for example I boot into Gnome, and click on Kword, fuck all happens. Does this sound a bit strange to you?
All software should run in any desktop. Kword should run in Gnome, or any other desktop/window manager for that matter. Try typing "kword" in a terminal and see what error message you get.
[ July 12, 2004: Message edited by: flap ]
