Just posting to thank everyone who helped me to sort this out. My
problem was that I hadn't selected all the necessary options in the
sound section of the config. I also needed to create the audio device
files with: cd /dev
./MAKEDEV audio
Thanks again
Rich
Graham Ashton wrote:
>
> On Friday 26 March, Richard Harran wrote:
>
> > Could someone please tell me either what I might be doing wrong, or how
> > I could do the 'configure the sound driver with CONFIG_AUDIO option'
> > thing.
>
> have you done either "make config", "make menuconfig" or "make xconfig" before
> the "make dep; make clean" ?
>
> if not, that's your problem. you need to configure the kernel first so that
> "make" knows which bits you want to build in. otherwise you won't be getting a
> kernel that's customised to your hardware - you'll be getting the default,
> which doesn't include audio support. "make menuconfig" and "make
> xconfig" are nicer than "make config", but they all do the same job.
>
> read the documentation in the Documentation subdirectory of the kernel
> source. I think there's a HOWTO on kernel compilation too - you'll find
> it at http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/
>
> --
> Graham
>
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