Hi. In Linux when you are compiling the Linux kernel kernel drivers can be compiled in two ways. They can either be compiled directly in to the kernel, or they can be compiled as a stand alone module that can be loaded in to memory at runtime. For example in order to boot your computer the kernel must have certain information such as file system, hard drive, cdrom, motherboard support, etc compiled directly in the kernel in order to start. Typically, all other unnecessary stuff like scanners, sound cards, joysticks, etc are compiled as a stand alone driver module that gets loaded later in the boot process when the modules.conf is read and all that hardware is brought on line. The advantage of a module is that unlike drivers that are compiled directly in a kernel a stand alone module can be manually loaded or unloaded with insmod and rmmod. Certain devices as the Dec PC can only except a stand alone module as that is how the device was made. Hth. ----- Original Message ----- From: <sclark04@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 8:12 PM Subject: Dectalk PC driver > Hi all. I wrote to the list a few days ago in regards to using the Dectalk > PC with Speakup. I downloaded the Dec PCmodule on the Speakup FTP > site. In the readme it says that "The driver must be built as a > module". Since I am a Linux newbie I have no idea how to do this. Can > some one please explain what this means? > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
