Re: [Debian-2.1.11.1 on VAIO 505 FX] X problems

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Subject: Re: [Debian-2.1.11.1 on VAIO 505 FX] X problems
From: Thomas Vogels <tov@infiniti.ece.cmu.edu>
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:28:13 -0400
Message-id: <[🔎] 199909282028.QAA21838@infiniti.ece.cmu.edu>
Reply-to: Thomas Vogels <tov@ece.cmu.edu>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 28 Sep 1999 10:25:10 EDT." <[🔎] XFMail.990928102510.shaleh@valinux.com>

"Sean" == Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@valinux.com> writes:

Sean> Read the doc in /usr/src/linux/Documentation (or whereever you placed your
Sean> kernel source).  It boils down to:
Sean> 
Sean> make {menu,x}config
Sean> sound as module
Sean> sound blaster
Sean> opl2/opl3
Sean> mpu-401
Sean> 
Sean> recompile
Sean> insmod soundcore
Sean> insmod sound
Sean> insmod uart401
Sean> modprobe opl3
Sean> insmod sb irq=5 io=0x220 dma=0

Sounds pretty scary to me, and I've been around for a while.  What's
wrong with "depmod -a"  to get module dependencies right and turning on
kerneld?  Any access to eg. /dev/sndstat will now magically load all
necessary modules.

  -tom

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