should have gone to the list, too ... -----Forwarded message from Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>-----
To: Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Sound support in kernel-image-2.0.30 References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84 In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; from Will Lowe on Sat, Oct 04, 1997 at 05:05:34PM -0400 On Sat, Oct 04, 1997 at 05:05:34PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: > On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Tom Ed White wrote: > > > I want to know if I need to recompile my kernel for > > sound. I suspect that many of the drivers are already there, since > > the device file is present. > There's no way to get around compiling the kernel. This isn't such a bad > thing, as the kernel-install process is simple enough that a trained > monkey can do it :). Assuming you've installed the > kernel-source.2.0.30.deb, it's I heavily encourage you to use the kernel-package package. It is so easy, I've seen monkeys using it :-) read the doc under /usr/doc/kernel-package. The 11 steps below will be reduced to 3 steps or so. > 1) determine your soundcard configuration (DMA, IRQ, addresses, etc.) often the default values are sufficient. Otherwise, a peek at windows configuration can be useful. > 2) as root, > a) cd /usr/src/linux > b) make menuconfig (or make xconfig, if you're running x and > tcl/tk) or make config, for the hardliners :-) > c) select "sound" and follow the prompts > at this point, take a look at the other stuff in your kernel; > if you don't have scsi, disable scsi support, etc.... makes the > kernel smaller and faster --- you'll probably also want to make > sound a module, unless you use your sound card 24/7 If you have pnp sound card, you HAVE to install sound as a module (otherwise pnp cannot take effect before sound module initialize). > 3) make dep > 4) make clean > 5) make zImage > 6) make modules > 7) make modules_install > 8) mv /vmlinuz /mvlinuz.old (or some other backup name) > 9) cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage /vmlinuz > 10) modify /etc/lilo.conf to have a stanze for each kernel -- keep the old > one around until you've run the new one a while (you might instead make > the new kernel into a boot disk, so you don't have to play with lilo.conf > yet -- to do this "make zdisk" with a disk in the drive) this steps are all one with the kernel package: Make your kernel, and you get a *.deb file, that you can install with dpkg -i <name>. > 11) run lilo and then reboot and have fun :-) Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ -----End of forwarded message----- -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
