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?

--- jonathan@aracnet.net "Qvid me anxivs svm?" -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e