On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 09:53:17AM +1100, Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote:
>
> I have a Debian Woody system running on a asus k7v motherboard with an
> Athlon 700 cpu. I have a SB Live! value card.
> ...
>
> So, my questions: what is the procedure for loading modules into the
> kernel? Is there some good resource somebody could point me at for
> learning about modules in general for a Linux|Debian newbie?
General module info:
Documentation/modules.txt in the Linux kernel source
(/usr/src/kernel-source-*/Documentation/modules.txt in debian)
man modprobe (also insmod, rmmod, lsmod etc)
Debian specific info (Debian manages modules.conf for you):
/usr/share/doc/modutils/*
> What is the best driver for the SBLive? - the kernel driver, the
> emu10k1 or alsa? or does it depend on what you do? I just want to
> play CD's, listen to MP3's and play games.
dunno, sorry (but I wish I had one ;)
more info is at:
http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/quality/#bad_digi
> And, in compiling the kernel what process family should I pick for my
> Athlon? 386, 486, 586, Pentium? (I know 386 works for everything?)
IIRC newer kernels (later 2.3.x and 2.4) have a specific Athlon option.
There's more Athlon info over at http://www.linhardware.com/
> Plus I have a IBM Deskstar 75gxp which is udma66; how can I tell how
> fast it's going; are there kernel options I can set to improve speed
> (not that I'm complaining - seems fine to me; just that I'm curious).
use hdparm: read about it at
http://www.moisty.org/~brion/linux/Ultra-DMA-8.html#ss8.1
(Part of the Linux Ultra-DMA mini-howto, probably also in your
/usr/doc directory)
http://www.moisty.org/~brion/linux/Ultra-DMA.html
Conrad.
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