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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, sindi keesan wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, David Moberg wrote:
>
> > Sindi, can you tell us what model sound card you're using and what modules
> > you normally insert with the bare.i (or whichever slackware kernel you use)
> > kernel to get your sound card working? Exact quotes of each insmod, 
> > preferably.
> > (I mean with I/O addresses, IRQs and other module parameters.)
> insmod soundcore
> insmod soundlow
> insmod sound (I think this is where it gets stuck - can't insmod the
> module when using the new kernel tho I can with bare.i)
> insmod v_midi
> insmod uart401
> insmod sb io=0x220 irq=5
>
> sb16 - the above worked on all my computers with bare.i
>
>
>
> > > I did not see anything for sb - do I need to compile in support for
> > > it somehow?
> >
> > That's strange. You should see CONFIG_SB. Try adding more ISA/other
> > bus modules?
> I found CONFIG_SOUND_SB and CONFIG_SOUND_VMID(I?) in the help file but I 
> don't see it in my .config file - possibly because I made a few mistakes and 
> did not know how to back up so just edited the .config file, which I now see 
> I should not have done.  If I accidentally said N to sound it might have not 
> then offered me other options.
>
> Maybe soundlow was needed in order to use 'sound' itself and I did not have 
> support for that even as a module.
>
> I also found CONFIG_LOWLEVEL_SOUND but nothing about SOUNDCORE
> and for UART6850 which it says not to use for most sound cards.
>
> I will try another configure.  Or read bare.i and hand-edit this one.
> My kernel was only about 450K even with sound and scsi (and no math-emu).

I found SB in both the help file and in the config for bare.i but I redid 
make config (I had missed idescsi anyway) and the program ends abruptly at 
OSS sound, without the next three pages of sound (including SB, AWE32, 
ACI_MIXER, and V_MIDI LOWLEVEL_SOUND).  I don't see anything corresponding 
to soundcore or uart401 though thereis a uart6850.  There are uart401.o 
and uart6850.o modules.

Besides SB and V_MIDI, what should I manually add to .config to let me 
load as modules soundcore, soundlow, and uart401?

I have two AWE32 cards (and an AWE64).

bare.i had just about all sound as modules so I cannot guess from that 
specifically what is needed here.

The sb.o module was I think supposed to make sound devices and did not (I 
had to mknod various dsp and audio devices) - and I ran across one part of 
the help file that said something like 'someone please write this up', so 
it looks like they met a deadline by being sloppy and incomplete.  The 
sound device stuff was eventually patched in a later kernel.

I took your advice and made everything possible as modules except ppp 
(which I use all the time) and cd-rom support.

My configuration was similar to that for BL2 but without math emulation, 
for 586, with idescsi and other scsi module support, minimal language 
support. Without all the needed sound module support it was about 450K 
kernel but I will have to redo after hand-editing .config (with your help, 
thanks).


I did not compile to support mdacon.o but it works as a module anyway in 
BL2 and BL3.  Why?