Re: Sound support in kernel-image-2.0.30
why don't you simply use make-kpkg to compile the kernel?
Will Lowe wrote:
>
> On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Tom Ed White wrote:
>
> > How can I find out which sound cards, if any, are supported in this
> > kernel image?
> If you're using the standard debian-installed kernel, I don't think ANY
> are automatically supported.
>
> > I want to know if I need to recompile my kernel for
> > sound. I suspect that many of the drivers are already there, since
> > the device file is present.
> There's no way to get around compiling the kernel. This isn't such a bad
> thing, as the kernel-install process is simple enough that a trained
> monkey can do it :). Assuming you've installed the
> kernel-source.2.0.30.deb, it's
>
> 1) determine your soundcard configuration (DMA, IRQ, addresses, etc.)
> 2) as root,
> a) cd /usr/src/linux
> b) make menuconfig (or make xconfig, if you're running x and
> tcl/tk)
> c) select "sound" and follow the prompts
> at this point, take a look at the other stuff in your kernel;
> if you don't have scsi, disable scsi support, etc.... makes the
> kernel smaller and faster --- you'll probably also want to make
> sound a module, unless you use your sound card 24/7
> 3) make dep
> 4) make clean
> 5) make zImage
> 6) make modules
> 7) make modules_install
> 8) mv /vmlinuz /mvlinuz.old (or some other backup name)
> 9) cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage /vmlinuz
> 10) modify /etc/lilo.conf to have a stanze for each kernel -- keep the old
> one around until you've run the new one a while (you might instead make
> the new kernel into a boot disk, so you don't have to play with lilo.conf
> yet -- to do this "make zdisk" with a disk in the drive)
> 11) run lilo and then reboot
>
> Email with questions.
> Will
>
> harpo@udel.edu
> lowe@cis.udel.edu
> http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/
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