Well, whatever the reason, using LOADLIN instead of lilo is the key.
Yesterday I set up lilo and the sound no longer works. I haven't tried
LOADLIN since then but I have no reason to think that it wouldn't work.
Now I have to decide if getting sound is worth the hassle of using LOADLIN.
:(
Also I noticed that the sound stopped working after an APM suspend/resume
cycle. One more thing to fix..
-phil
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marvin.Stodolsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, November 09, 1998 10:19 am
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: sound with 7k and linux
>
>
> 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
> ======================================================
>
>
> 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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