[nflug] driver question

[vlok stone]

Most devices drivers are loaded as modules at boot
time. Thus, if the kernel sees a new device and has
the drivers, it loads them automatically.  If not, you
have to look at the config and see if 
it can be enabled. If not you have to search to see if
someone has made the module and then install it.
That's why when the kernel loads the nvidia module
it's usually nv and not nvidia which is a proprietary
driver that gives you the glx capabilities. Well, you
get the idea. 

--- joshj at linuxmail.org wrote:

> 
> Thus spake anthonyriga on Wed, 22 Mar 2006
> 
> > How does linux load drivers on pcs for example the
> > sound drivers and reconizes them automatically and
> XP
> > Windows does not load the drivers at all causing
> the
> > user to find them. Are the drivers loaded in the
> linux
> > kernel? Im trying to explain this to a windows
> guy. He
> > says that since the soundcard was new on a new pc
> it
> > wouldnt be on the cd. I tested the pc using
> Knoppix
> > 3.8 CD and it picked up the souncard fine using
> AC97
> > realtek driver. He is pure wondows fanboy. Any
> good
> > explanations?
> 
> This is a good one. I'd like to know the answer to
> this. I take it for
> granted now that when I need to find out if
> something works I just pop
> in Knoppix or SysRescCD. I think it is part of the
> startup scripts.
> Because on my Gentoo box I have to make sure that
> all modules are
> explicitly loaded if I want something to work. eg
> soundcard. It probably
> checks /proc/pci or runs an lspci and compares the
> output against a DB
> file of somekind for known drivers. I'm not 100%
> sure though. Just kind
> of guessing.
> 
> -Josh
> 
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