On 01/23/2011 10:08 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Hi,
My question is: How can I distinguish devices/entities, which do not need any driver to work and those, which need a driver but in the current setup the driver wasn't compiled in/compiled as module?
Well, this is quick and dirty and you won't learn much about kernel modules, but it will most likely work very easily. Get the latest gentoo installation CD (it really can be any linux install CD as long as it's recent) and boot it in the machine you're having trouble with. The reasoning is the install CD will already have *every* driver available, and the kernel will load the drivers it needs for your particular machine. So, once the CD is booted, just figure out how to get a console going and type lsmod. Write down anything that looks related to sound, and build your own kernel with those drivers enabled.
