On 12-Feb-99 Daniel Elenius wrote: > David Webster writes: >>OLP2/3 stuff and mpu401. All this stuff loads just fine at boot but I >>still get no /dev/dsp /dev/sndstat devices at all. Is there something >>missing? My system is a Gateway G6-266 and unfortunately Gatweay saw > > /dev/sndstat isn't supported by that driver (do you need it? > why?), see /Documentation/sound/es1370.txt (or something like that). > But I have a /dev/dsp on mine. I compiled it as a > non-module. Maybe that helps (there's no real reason to have it as a > module, only ISA pnp cards require that). I've really had no problems > with card at all. >
Same reason anything else is a module -- I do not use it very often and do not need the bloat the rest of the time. Especially true on my laptop where cpu/mem eat the battery.