Re: Installing Sound Card
Doug Thistlethwaite:
> Thanks for the reply Andrei... Unfortunately it is a PNP card and I do
> not have windoze on the system to get the port numbers from.
In that case, you need isapnp and pnpdump.
The latter gives you an initial file to work from, you just need to decide
what IRQ etc you want - anything the card will take that's not already
listed in /proc/interrupts
One problem with the output is that it intermingles comment-comments with
comments that you should uncomment. Fortunately, all the things you need to
uncomment are in brackets. So it might offer you for some card:
# IRQ 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12 or 15.
# High true, edge sensitive interrupt
# (INT 0 (IRQ 4 (MODE +E)))
So you check /proc/interrupts, and find that it doesn't list 5 (of the
numbers given by pnpdump). So you change the last line to:
(INT 0 (IRQ 5 (MODE +E)))
Note the lack of the # at the beginning of the line, and the 5.
> As for my kernel, when I tried to make it, it asked me a ton of questions
> and didn't seem to have any defaults in it at all.
It does have defaults, but once you've been through it once, it uses your
previous answers as defaults.
To get a fresh start, move the file .config somewhere else. I think that
should do the trick.
> I ended up specifying the things I thought I needed, but obviously I
> didn't know what I was doing... :)
It offers drivers for a lot of things you don't have. Just make sure you
answer 'n' if you don't have the corresponding hardware. You don't need
drivers for XT hard disks, Appletalk or IDE tape drives unless you have
those things.
Remember that if the new kernel doesn't recognise something, you can easily
go back and add it in - once you've compiled the kernel once, compiling it
again is easy.
Note that with the PnP card, you'll need to tell it to make the soundcard
driver a module.
Jiri
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