On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 06:28:10PM -0400, Camiel Coenen wrote: > I read somewhere that all kernels from 2.2.7 on, have sound support built-in. Are you talking debians kernel-images?
> I have a ES1869 soundcard on my laptop and kernel 2.2.10 but still I > don't have any sound. Although I tried several time to load the sound > module with modconf, it still doesn't work. though I have read the > HOWTO on sound, but I don't feel like recompiling my kernel. Where do I > go from here ? First look in /lib/modules/<kernel-version>/misc for sound.o, soundcore.o, and whatever module matches your sound card. If they aren't there, no amount of modprobing will get you sound. You'll *get* to compile a new kernel, which is relatively painless -- and well managed doing it the `debian way'[tm]. -- +----------------------------------------------------+ | Eric G. Miller [email protected] | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | +----------------------------------------------------+
