The role of LOADLIN below requires some clarification, I thing.
1) A successful start of LINUX through DOS loadlin
will remove from RAM anything that DOS loaded.
2) Some sound cards have a mini non-RAM memory which retains settings:
on my inspiron 3200, the old volume setting under Win95 is retained
after entering Linux, though this may be affected by your sound defaults
under
Linux.
Thus the take home:
DOSWin drivers loaded into RAM will not be retained under Linux,
BUT their firmware settings may.
MarvS
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Subject:
RE: sound with 7k and linux
Date:
Mon, 9 Nov 1998 08:27:23 -0500
From:
"Phil Shapiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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I've been able to set up sound on my i7k using Redhat 5.1. I had to rebuild
the kernel to get the SBPro sound support working.
The key I think is that I use LOADLIN to boot linux instead of lilo. LOADLIN
loads after DOS, so at the point when linux boots, the ESS driver has
already been loaded.
I haven't done extensive testing yet (got it working late last night), but
cat foo.au > /dev/audio worked fine.
-phil
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