Re: Ensoniq Soundblaster PCI64D

[Helgi Örn <hehe@post.netlink.se>]

Thank's!

That sounds like it's a piece of cake, I'll give it a try.

HÖ

David Vrabel wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Helgi [iso-8859-1] Örn wrote:
> 
> > Hi David,
> >
> > I didn't know that 2.1 doesn't suppert the es1371 chip!
> > The PCI64 card has got the ES1371 chip not ES1370.
> >
> > So i have to compile a new kernel! I've never done that before so i
> > don't know how either.
> 
> It's actually not that difficult:
> 
> Download a kernel tarball from a suitable site (use 2.2.14; 2.2.16 has
> bugs in it so unless you feel like patching the source.)
> Unpack it somewhere sensible (/usr/src is the typical place).
> Make sure you have
>         ncurses-dev
>         gcc
>         binutils
>         bin86
>         kernel-package
> package installed.
> Change to the kernel source directory and type
>         make menuconfig
> Configure your kernel it helps if you know what hardware you have...
> Read /usr/doc/kernel-package/* to find out how to make a kernel .deb
> (can't remember how to do it myself.)
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> David Vrabel