On August 7, 2001 11:30 pm, Myles Green wrote:
> David Aikema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > BTW, how did you set up your sound? If you haven't done this yet you
> > > might want to edit /etc/rc.d/rc.modules to uncomment your sound card
> >
> > and
> >
> > Well.... in /usr/src/linux/Doc...n/sound I discovered which driver
> > supported
> > my sound card and modprobed it into the kernel.
>
> you did this from a command line? any errors? what sound card is this
> again?
>
> > I then added a line for it to rc.modules, b/c even a commented out one
> > did
> > not already exist, although the module was available.
>
> OK but you might need to modify how you entered it (IRQ/DMA etc)
Well.... the card seems to work in realplayer, xmms, play, etc.... basically
anything that doesn't use artsd
> hint: in slackware 8, if you replace 'make bzImage' (when you get to
> that step) with 'make bzlilo', it moves your old kernel to vmlinuz.old
> for you (along with System.old), then all you need to do is modify
> /etc/lilo to point to it before you do the 'make bzlilo', it will run
> /sbin/lilo for you when it's done.
>
> --- from /etc/lilo.conf ---
>
> image = /vmlinuz.old
> label = old_kernel
> root = /dev/hda1
> vga = normal
> read-only
>
> ------- end snip -------
Thanks for the tips. I wouldn't have to somehow specify the location of the
old system.map in the lilo config would I?
David Aikema
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