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Kernel Korner - Exploring Dynamic Kernel Module Support (DKMS)

Issue 113

From Issue #113
September 2003

Sep 01, 2003  By Gary Lerhaupt
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Manage modules separately from the kernel with a simplified delivery system, and make your package manager more useful.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 07/13/2009 - 18:17.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dkms
Check the above link, it should give you the answer

Nice article

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Submitted by Pablo Castellano (not verified) on Sat, 03/14/2009 - 16:43.

Nice article

I got an odd problem while

mahan_h's picture
Submitted by mahan_h (not verified) on Tue, 11/04/2008 - 08:15.

I got an odd problem while installing video card driver ATI Catalyst 8.10 on my Ubuntu 8.10 manually.

I completely followed the way Unofficial ATI Linux Driver Wiki told me.
(http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubu...allation_Guide)
When I excuted "deb dpkg -i fglrx-amdccle.....deb",
I Got:
"Error! Build of fglrx.ko failed for 2.6.27-7-generic"
"Error! Could not locate fglrx.ko for module fglrx in the DKMS tree"...

How could I fix this problem????

Re: Exploring Dynamic Kernel Module Support (DKMS)

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 07/29/2004 - 02:00.

Does anyone know if there are any plans to add DKMS to the Linux kernel?

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