zentara wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Way back when I started with Linux, I thought
> setting up awe32 sound on a 2.0.*
> was a real hard task.
> I finally master how to do it, and it ran fine.
> Easy...insmod sound...rmmod sound.
>
my experiments in the old days never ended up with modules,
I got it only working direct in the kernel
> Now all of a sudden, in the new 2.2.* kernels,
> the "easy" OSSFREE drivers are forced on us.
>
> I just went thru the sound docs and to get the
> damn thing to work I need these commands
>
> insmod soundcore
> insmod soundlow
> insmod sound
> insmod uart401
> insmod sb
>
oss is started with the "soundon" and "stopped" with soundoff command.
Is it possible that you are doing it "by hand"?
Of course, it wont work with my setup. A cuple of devices is recognised
on my card (cat /dev/sndstat) but not *THE* audio thing. No matter what
I do or device drivers I select.
> and I have to specify module parameters in conf.modules.
> And there are just as many to remove them.
>
> What's even worse...it sounds like CRAP.
>
I�d be happy to get sofar. ;-))
> How do you get rid of the OSS SOUND being forced
> upon you in make menuconfig?
>
> Is this some clever ploy by OSS to force everyone to
> buy their drivers?
>
Yes. I miss the old drivers as well.
J�rgen
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