Understanding hardware support

[Tom and Esther Ward]

Hi, device drivers come in two types. Kernel modules, and there is
independant device drivers for devices such as cups, gnome-speech, etc which
give additional support.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Debee Norling" <NorlingDeborah at fhda.edu>
To: "Saqib Shaikh" <S.Shaikh at sussex.ac.uk>; <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 5:39 PM
Subject: RE: Understanding hardware support


> Saqib,
>
> Thank you so, so much for taking time to answer these questions.
>
> Yes, I have been reading Linux Documentation project information, and your
> response clarified much of what I have already read.
>
> So are you saying that a module is the same thing as a device driver and
> that this driver can become part of the kernel (if it is compiled with the
> kernel)? And are you also saying  the same module also can be external,
that
> is, a user can choose to have it running or disabled?
>
> If I have finally got it right,  then much of what I've been reading
> suddenly makes a whole lot more sense.
>
> You are correct about my motives;  I don't want a fully working system,
> because I do want to solve problems. My only frustration was in not being
> able to find  information about some very basic details. There is plenty
of
> beginner-oriented material about UNIX out there, but it typically shows
you
> twenty ways to display the date, and tells you nothing about how to get a
> system working. More advanced docs  tell you about system internals,
> assuming you already know the basics.
>
>
> --Debee
>
>
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