On Tuesday 16 November 2004 05:01, Peter wrote: > Thank you so much Richard! > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > I seem to remember you mentioning that you had compiled a new kernel.??? > > If that is true then maybe you did not define your IDE chipset, if that > > is the case then that is your problem as the kernel will fall back onto, > > "slow but works on anything" sort of arrangement. The command 'lspci' > > should say what the chipset is, then checkout /usr/src/linux/config and > > make sure you have defined support for that chipset. > > In my last mail I said I give up on the idea of installing kernel 2.6.7 in > Slackware10 since I could not produce any sound and programs like kppp took > twice as long to load than with 2.4.26 and dma could not be turned on. > > Now as per your advice I had one last try and behold there is now sound and > same loading speed for kppp as in 2.4.26 and dma is turned on. > > My chipset is of VIA Technologies. Since make xconfig gives an error with > 2.6.7 I am using menuconfig in which I have a hard time finding things like > VIA. So I went into .../linux/.config searched for VIA82xxx set them to =y > then > make, cat bzImage > vmliz, lilo and there it was.
I'm old fashioned about things, i always use 'make config' but i also cheat a lot and edit .config and then use 'make oldconfig' that way one only gets to answer newly found changed configuration. > Except the sound is very faint and I have to make aumix -L first to have > full sound. No problem I put that into .profile. Apparently the setting is > lost when shutting down unlike in 2.4.26. Use alsa's programs to set your sound 'alsactl' 'alsamixer' etc etc. > On boot I still get the error meassge: > > FATAL: Module snd_pcm_oss not found. > FATAL: Module snd_mixer_oss not found. Could be old entries in /etc/modules.conf confusing module loading. A good place to get hints is; http://www.djcj.org/LAU/guide/index.php Has many links as well. > > Regards -- If the Linux community is a bunch of thieves because they try to imitate windows programs, then the Windows community is built on organized crime. Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
