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

On Tue, 24 May 2005, David Moberg wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
>
> > Anyway, my request for /dev/sr0 and maybe /dev/sr1 (scsi DVD or a
> > second scsi CD-ROM drive, which we can take out of another external
> > case) still holds.
>
> You still need modules for SCSI, don't you? While you are getting the
> modules, can't you get the Slackware devs package while you're at it?
> IIRC BL doesn't support SCSI by default.


I don't want hundreds of /devs that I never heard of.

The BL2 kernel (I think) lets you insmod scsi_mod sg sr_mod sd ide-scsi 
and I found in BL2 the /devs starting in sg and sd but not sr.  BL2 (at 
least after I installed it to hd) had lots of /dev/sd's and sg's (in case 
you had 8 scsi devices?).  It could include only the more commonly used 
ones to make space for sr0 and sr1 and a 360K fd0 and fd1.

Sound that is not supported by the BL kernel.

I experimented with the bare.i kernel and es1371.o (AudioPCI 
Creative/Ensoniq) and esssolo.o and cs4232.o and trident.o (these last two 
appeared to work but were not audible so I will try them in Windows before 
recycling).  I have two other ESS cards, ISA, that won't work with any 
available IRQs, also to be tested in Windows.  I need to recompile my 
kernel to support them and also add a M for the YM module needed by 
playmidi (and probably also insmod awe_wave and make /dev/midi0 and 
/dev/sequencer and /dev/mixer).

So far I plan to support sb esssolo1 es1370 es1371, maybe trident and 
cs4232 (Crystal) - and for ethernet cards tulip, rtl8139, 3c509, 3c59x. 
Would anyone like me to add support for other sound or ethernet cards to 
my kernel, which is otherwise similar to BL2 in most respects?  Under 
500K, pentium.  Only scsi card I have is aic7xxx (Adaptec), of which I 
had three given to me at different times.  Should I add other cards?

Maybe the BL2 kernel does not have scsi support, I don't really recall.


> David