Re: Ensoniq ES1370 configuration
On 12-Feb-99 Daniel Elenius wrote:
> David Webster writes:
>>OLP2/3 stuff and mpu401. All this stuff loads just fine at boot but I
>>still get no /dev/dsp /dev/sndstat devices at all. Is there something
>>missing? My system is a Gateway G6-266 and unfortunately Gatweay saw
>
> /dev/sndstat isn't supported by that driver (do you need it?
> why?), see /Documentation/sound/es1370.txt (or something like that).
> But I have a /dev/dsp on mine. I compiled it as a
> non-module. Maybe that helps (there's no real reason to have it as a
> module, only ISA pnp cards require that). I've really had no problems
> with card at all.
>
Same reason anything else is a module -- I do not use it very often and do not
need the bloat the rest of the time. Especially true on my laptop where
cpu/mem eat the battery.
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