I've only have been able to get any Aureal Vortex card to work with kernel 2.2.18 or
higher. I heard someone got it to work with 2.2.16 but I never was able to do it.
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On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 20:42:59 Mark Weaver wrote:
>Hi list,
>
>Before I get started could someone please pass me the cheese to go with my
>wine?
>
>That being said, I've been working on this getting this stupid kernel
>recompiled to accomodate a Turtle Beach sound card for two stinkin weeks
>and the darn thing continually bombs out on one error or another. If its
>not choking on imaginary bad code, then it's telling me that something
>else is wrong somewhere. It doesn't seem to matter "how" I configure the
>stinkin thing it always bombs out with an error.
>
>The usual thing is a parsing error, or it says there's a '{' missing, or
>there's a ')' missing, or even more bizare is the compiler error that I
>got tonight. It doesn't matter if I'm trying to do a recompile of
>2.2.16-9mdk, or a new config and compile of 2.2.17. The results are the
>same. The compile bombs on an error. On the off chance that it does
>compile without any errors and all the modules are made and installed then
>the damn thing doesn't work right and there are a few things that just
>don't work on the system. pppd for one and the other that really knots my
>shorts is the friggin sound. The whole reason I'm torturing myself in the
>first place.
>
>So, what I really need is some in depth documentation that will cover, in
>explanitory fashion, the compiler errors that gcc gives and what to do and
>how to do "good" compilations of these darn kernels. As I write this I'm
>preparing to torture myself some more by downloading kernel 2.4test9. I
>don't know why I'm even thinking I'm going to get it to work. It'll
>probably bomb like the rest of these. Frankly I don't know how others are
>getting them to compile and work!
>
>thanks for letting me rant. I'm done now.
>
>--
>Mark
>
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> * it's already too late...just make sure
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