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I am sorry to answer so late. I could not subscribe to the Assist
list. Thank you Marc-Alexandre for your message and Jorge for
forwarding it.<tt><font color="#000000"> </font></tt>These are my
comments.<br>
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It would be better to have just one list so that newbies learn from
the experts and experts know about newbies problems. Then we will
always have someone answer questions. If the traffic is high, only
then it is useful to have separate lists. <br>
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El 01/03/12 00:10, Jorge Araya Navarro escribió:
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<tt><font color="#000000">I'm using a laptop that needs the
vt8623fb module and I don't know how</font></tt><br>
<tt><font color="#000000">I can just compile the module alone
since recompiling the whole kernel</font></tt><br>
<tt><font color="#000000">(even if it's tweaked) takes way too
much time on my machine.</font></tt><br>
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I have not tried to compile a module separately from the kernel. All
I have done is compiled drivers as modules or into the kernel.
Nevertheless many drivers such as video loaded as modules are
updated without updating the kernel. I would think that you can
compile a module without compiling the whole kernel.<br>
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<blockquote type="CITE"> <tt><font color="#000000">I've lost
3days doing nothing but unsuccessful researches on the
subject.</font></tt><br>
<tt><font color="#000000">Now I spent something like 8~9hours
compiling the kernel using the ABS</font></tt><br>
<tt><font color="#000000">(<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernels/Compilation/Arch_Build_System">https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernels/Compilation/Arch_Build_System</a>)</font></tt><br>
<tt><font color="#000000">with the modules I needed and it just
ended up creating a dummy empty</font></tt><br>
<tt><font color="#000000">package (while saying that everything
was done successfully).</font></tt><br>
<tt><font color="#000000">Not to mention that patching the
kernel from 3.2 to 3.2.7 just fails</font></tt><br>
<tt><font color="#000000">miserably for no reason (?!) so I had
to tweak the PKGBUILD to grab</font></tt><br>
<tt><font color="#000000">the GNU/Linux Libre Kernel 3.2.7
directly.</font></tt><br>
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Directly from where? Please describe the process you did and the
manuals you consulted as well as the error messages that you
received. That will help suggest solutions.<br>
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<blockquote type="CITE"> <tt><font color="#000000">It's seriously
driving me mad and I'm starting to wonder if I just</font></tt><br>
<tt><font color="#000000">doesn't have a IQ high enough to do
all of theses things.</font></tt><br>
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Don't feel sorry for yourself. Just keep trying.<br>
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<blockquote type="CITE"> <tt><font color="#000000">If anyone
knows how to help me, you have all my attention. For now</font></tt><br>
<tt><font color="#000000">I'll just prevent myself from smashing
this computer on the floor.</font></tt><br>
<tt><font color="#000000">Also, before anyone start to answer my
problem by not answering it: I</font></tt><br>
<tt><font color="#000000">don't want to use another distribution
than Parabola. I have a problem</font></tt><br>
<tt><font color="#000000">and I want to fix it.</font></tt><br>
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That's the soul of a real hacker!<br>
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<blockquote type="CITE"> <tt><font color="#000000">Thank you all
in advance for your answers,</font></tt><br>
<tt><font color="#000000">Marc-Alexandre Espiaut</font></tt><br>
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I'm forwarding this message to the dev list because looks like
nobody wants to help me out with the list for assist people.<br>
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It is not possible for me to subscribe to Assist because the
confirmation string is not accepted. <br>
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I can't help you out with that, is very technical for my skills,
but, that module's source code is free as in freedom? sorry, we
must ask first... <br>
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If the sources used are linux-Libre there will be no problem about
freedom.<br>
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After writing all this email I can see the module is in the kernel
now <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://labs.parabola.nu/issues/14">http://labs.parabola.nu/issues/14</a><br>
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