On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Tom Ed White wrote:
> How can I find out which sound cards, if any, are supported in this
> kernel image?
If you're using the standard debian-installed kernel, I don't think ANY
are automatically supported.
> I want to know if I need to recompile my kernel for
> sound. I suspect that many of the drivers are already there, since
> the device file is present.
There's no way to get around compiling the kernel. This isn't such a bad
thing, as the kernel-install process is simple enough that a trained
monkey can do it :). Assuming you've installed the
kernel-source.2.0.30.deb, it's
1) determine your soundcard configuration (DMA, IRQ, addresses, etc.)
2) as root,
a) cd /usr/src/linux
b) make menuconfig (or make xconfig, if you're running x and
tcl/tk)
c) select "sound" and follow the prompts
at this point, take a look at the other stuff in your kernel;
if you don't have scsi, disable scsi support, etc.... makes the
kernel smaller and faster --- you'll probably also want to make
sound a module, unless you use your sound card 24/7
3) make dep
4) make clean
5) make zImage
6) make modules
7) make modules_install
8) mv /vmlinuz /mvlinuz.old (or some other backup name)
9) cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage /vmlinuz
10) modify /etc/lilo.conf to have a stanze for each kernel -- keep the old
one around until you've run the new one a while (you might instead make
the new kernel into a boot disk, so you don't have to play with lilo.conf
yet -- to do this "make zdisk" with a disk in the drive)
11) run lilo and then reboot
Email with questions.
Will
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