Re: Newbie Needing Help With Sound

[Tristan Tarrant <ttarrant@etnoteam.it>]

On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 16:05, Andrew Dixon wrote:
> Liam Black wrote:
> 
> > But what do I do now? There is no /usr/src/linux directory on my machine,
> > and I've never dealt with reconfiguring/recompiling the kernel (which seems
> > to be something I have to do?)
> 
> Yup, if you want sound you'll need to recompile a kernel.
> 
> > 
> > Is there an "easy" way to do this?
> 
> There's the Debian way, which I'm unfamiliar with,  and then there's the
> oldfashioned way where you just compile and install a kernel, run lilo,
> and reboot.  You have to be careful though because your kernel might get
> over written on an upgrade.
> 
> The first thing you want to do is get the source.  Either go to
> kernel.org and down load it from there or:
> 
> 	#apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.16
> 	#cd /usr/src
> 	#bunzip2 kernel-source-2.4.16.tar.bz
> 	#tar -xvf kernel-source-2.4.16.tar
> 	#mv kernel-source-2.4.16 linux
> 
> The above lines are just from memory so double check them to make sure
> that it all makes sence.
> 
> good luck,
> Andy

The kernel I have installed (a Debian-provided-precompiled 2.4.17)
already provides modules for sound cards.
All I had to do was add the name of the module to /etc/modules
Check under /lib/modules/kernel-version/...