Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (668 mails)

[jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxx (jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxx)]

On 20-Feb-98 Kyle Johnson wrote:

I had the same question, glad you asked it.  I found the answer, though: run
the DOS-based driver FIRST, then use loadlin to load on top of that.

I was doing the following in my DOS Config.sys:
shell=loadlin.exe zimage root=/blah/blah/blah

All I needed to do was put the DEVICE= line before that.

It's worth recompiling the kernel, though.  It's not as frightening of an
adventure as you think, and tunes the performance somewhat.

> I have about 8 weeks of linux experience under my belt, and I'm about 
> ready to tackle the job of activating sound under my SuSE 5.1 
> distribution.  In general, how does one do this?  A couple of applications 
> (including Tkdesk) emit a message that "/dev/sound is not recognized".  
> How do I activate it, or load the sound module?  There _is_ such a file in 
> the /dev directory.  
> 
> My sound card is a basic Acer AW32, with a Crystal sound chip (PnP), and 
> it's listed among the supported cards in the OSS-Linux site (4Front).  I 
> understand that re-compiling the kernel is probably not necessary, and I'd 
> like to postpone that adventure a bit if I can.  Could someone give me 
> some advice, or point me to some of the appropriate documents? 


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