Joseph de los Santos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi, > > I have a couple of *easy* questions. hoping somebody could help me out. > > 1.where does kerneld look for modules to load? i.e. I am having problems with > one module called mpu401, kerneld looks for it during booting then complains > even if I don't have it. I was wondering how I could control what kerneld > tries to look for.
modules are usually kept in /lib/modules/[KERNEL_VERSION]/ if kernel is looking for it at boot time and it isn't there then check /etc/modules to see if it is trying to load it. > 2.in windows, the generic s3virge card can support the 16 bit depth color but > when I try to use it in linux it does'nt let me. why is this so? have you edited the /etc/X11/XF86Config file - or run a config app like XF86Setup to tell it to start in 16bit colour by default? I've got an s3virge card and it can definately do 16bit colour.... > 3.I am still having trouble adding something to my ld_library_path. How can > this be done and how can I verify it? via ldd /bin/bash perhaps? add a dir to your ld_library_path with: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/foo/bar or add a line to your /etc/ld.so.conf file. > Thank you and any info will be appreciated. Hope this helps, Cyrus -- Cyrus Patel - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Computer Engineering Debian GNU/Linux University of New South Wales (Potato) Sydney, Australia. ICQ: 50738541
