On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Richard Morin wrote: > > > Does anyone know if it is possible for a pnp sound card to configure > > > without that package, on previous versions of debian? > > > > > Funny thing is with deb 1.1 I was able to > > > config my kernel for sound no problem. > > > > Even for your PnP board. It sounds strange for me that Debian 1.1 could > > manage > > PnP boards and 1.2 could not. > > > > > Turns out I found out why my board was able to work and I have it "sorta" > working again. My bios has support for pnp and initiates the card before > boot. I remember something about disabling pnp in the bios, is it wrong > to let it config this way? > > M/B is a Gigabyte GA586ATE, with Award bios, if anyone is curious. > > I can play CD's now, but when I try to use /dev/audio via "saytime" it > fails, I saw something in the docs, I'll have to dig it out again. > > > Rich M > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Hate to keep following up my own posts, but I feel so damn good I must share my hapiness. Yaaaaaaaaa! I've got diald up and running, and all my kernel woes are behind me. (Screw pon, I still didn't get it to work) It took a bit, ok a lot of reading, but I finally got things fixed up. I had to remove the modules package, re-compile my kernel a few times, (got bitten by a bad floppy) and then re-write the stock connect script that comes with diald, but it works and I couldn't be happier that I did it myself...:-) Little bit of tuning to do yet, but that is the fun stuff, for me anyways.
For my pnp sound card, I got the config it uses in win95, then made sure that those options were in my .config file in /usr/src/linux....before I did my make dep, make clean, make zdisk, make modules, make modules_install. Reboot and lo and bohold my /dev/audio works now. I can play squake to alleviate my frustrations now... Have to read more about the Debian way to do kernels when I have more time. For now, this works great. Thanks for being patient with me folks... Rich M [EMAIL PROTECTED]