On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, Cristov Russell wrote: > According to the SB AWE how-to, since I have a PNP card I must load support > as a module. Does this mean I do not have to recompile the kernel; I only > have to build a module for sound or in order to use the module I will need > to build I must recompile the kernel. BTW - I'm a little intimidated about > recompiling at this point. I've read several references on how to do it but > it still seems daunting.
Chances are, you will have to recompile your kernel. I don't know of any other way to compile modules. It's something that you should get used to anyways. Just make sure that you have a boot disk around (like the Debian rescue disk). To make life easier, use either 'make menuconfig' or 'make xconfig' instead of 'make config'. > Also, at the end of the section that explains the modification of the > isapnp.conf he writes: > > If you have a Debian system, no further adjustments are necessary. isapnp > will be started at boot time in /etc/init.d/boot with this snippet of script > code... > > I don't have a boot file in /etc/init.d/. Should I make one or should the > script be placed elsewhere? I do have a isapnp in /etc/init.d/ that matches > the how-to exactly. Don't worry about the lack of that file. It threw me off at first, but I trusted the guy who wrote the howto. Sure enough, he was right. I have an SB AWE64 here, and I followed the steps in that howto, and had sound up and running within an hour, including recompiling my kernel. Have fun... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tower Visit my WindowMaker page at http://www.cs.mun.ca/~gstarkes/wmaker/ "You can twist perceptions, reality won't budge." -Neil Peart, Rush, in "Show Don't Tell"
