on Thu, 24 Jun 2004 01:56:03AM +0200, Benedict Verheyen insinuated:
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Nori Heikkinen" <nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu>
> >To: "debian-user" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> >Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 6:29 PM
> >Subject: kerenls: hand-rolled v. stock
> >i'm looking into grabbing a new kernel (because the one i'm using
> >doesn't appear to have the "soundcore" option either compiled in or as
> >a module -- can i fix this without updating kernels?). the one i have
> >right now, i hand-rolled froum the 2.4.20 source. i don't feel like
> >doing anothert one myself right now if i don't have to.
> >
> >in general, is there much of an advantage to hand-rolling over
> >grabbing a stock kernel? i feel like everything i probably want to
> >insert as a module (soundcore; usb; whatever) should be available in a
> >stock kernel.
> >
> >thanks,
> >
> ></nori>
>
> If you don't need any specific patches for certain hardware drivers
> or if most modules you need are available, then rolling your own
> kernel isn't necessary. I always role my own kernel (it's easy in
> debian) to get the pinguin on boot up
:) cute.
> and to slim down the kernel.
what advantage does this have? does it make everything run faster,
even if everything that's in there is compiled as a module and maybe
not loaded, as opposed to into the kernel proper?
> As for soundcore, i think it's in from the 2.4 kernels.
i,m running 2.4.20, but apparently i started with the source and
rolled it myself. as i said, it's been a while since i did this, so i
don't rememeber what i put in there and what i didn't -- but sound has
been working for me for the past year, so i'm really mystified as to
why this would be just coming up now.
> If you don't find the module on your system, then maybe it wasn't
> compiled in. To look for sound related config options in the kernel
> config:
>
> grep "SOUND" /boot/config-<kernel version>
right, this is what i was forgetting! thanks!
it appears that the only ones i have in there are the following:
orange:~> grep "SOUND" /boot/config-`uname -r` | egrep -v "^#"
CONFIG_SOUND=y
CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371=m
CONFIG_SOUND_VIA82CXXX=y
CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=m
CONFIG_SOUND_CS4232=m
CONFIG_SOUND_SSCAPE=m
CONFIG_SOUND_SB=m
and I don't see any option for SOUND_CORE or anything like it --
grepping for "CORE" doesn't yield anything.
it may be time to slip in a knoppix CD and see what modules it sticks
in when i get home today ...
thanks for your help and suggestions, as usual.
</nori>
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