Re: Sound support in kernel recompile
George,
Join the club! I have a SB pro on a machine and ran into the same
problem. I am compiling a list of kernels now, but will get it fixed later
on.
On Sun, 6 Apr 1997, G. Kapetanios wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Following the identification of a subtle bug in kernel-package which
> prefres custom.1.0 instead of custom-1.0 in the command syntax I managed
> to recompile my kernel succesfully without sound. When I set the sound
> card option to yes in the .config file my recompile breaks down giving
> errors about not being able to find some sound drivers. I only want the
> generic sound card support since when I put the SoundBlaster option to yes
> I get some requests for hardware details which I don't know how to fill
> If I leave the default values I get some sort of infinite loop .
> Is it possible to recompile a kernel with only the generic sound support
> on ? If it is what am I doing wrong ? If it isn't and I must set the
> hardware options can I get those values from a proc file or through some
> command since my documentation is not good enough ?
> Any help will be greatly appreciated. This is one of the two reasons I
> recompiled my kernel anyway.
>
> Thanks
> George
>
>
>
>
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> George Kapetanios
> Churchill College
> Cambridge, CB3 0DS
> U.K. E-Mail: GK205@hermes.cam.ac.uk
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>
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