Re: (Kinda OT) What makes Debian cool?
> | Hmmm... I must have missed the easy way to set up my sound card in
> | Debian.
Depends on the chip. In my machines I've go a aureal vortex 2 (I had to
compile a driver from sourceforge), an sb16 (picked the module at install),
an es1371 (picked the module at install), an sbLive (had to recompile my
2.4.x kernel for it), and a soundmax using the i810 module (had to complie a
2.4.x kernel for it). No difficulties, no command line options, just
modprobe, and it works.
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> | In Windows, it was automatically recognised and configured and just
> | worked.
> Sometimes windows will do that. If it doesn't, say your prayers!
PnP == Plug and Pray.
>
> | Is there really an easier way in Debian? Apparently (I
> | haven't tried it) I have to actually either recompile my kernel, or at
> | least a module,
If you do want to recompile, or need to to get a new module, it's quite easy
to do, just read the howto. Just don't forget to re-run lilo everytime your
vmlinuz file(s) change. (I forget half the time).
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> | And then there's my CD burner
xcdroast and gcombust both recognized by scsi burner and configured it
automagically. I hear IDE burners are a little more work.
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