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Re: liveCD booting into AMD A8-3870 processor
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Phong X Nguyen <[log in to unmask]>
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Phong X Nguyen <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 25 May 2012 02:56:42 +0000
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On 24 May 2012, at 0544, zxq9 wrote:
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> 	A digression about the driver on SL6:
> The annoying thing is that every time you update your kernel you'll need to rebuild the drivers against the new kernel headers. The awesome part is that the driver building process is mostly automated for you, AMD has lately done a very nice job of maintaining its driver set for Linux, games, CAD, and anything else graphical you want to do really fly on an A8, and all this is free (both types of "free" -- AMD opensourced its Linux drivers, so the Catalyst package is no longer "evil", or at least not as evil as it once was).
> 
Can you use DKMS to automate driver building on kernel update?

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