From: reeses@fab4box.wa.com (Art Taylor) Subject: Re: Sound cards, answer to core problem? Date: Fri, 21 May 1993 09:05:19 GMT
In article <1th6fb$3vs@agate.berkeley.edu> garrett@sba70.berkeley.edu (Garrett D'Amore) writes:
>This worked well for me under my old 0.99pl8 kernel, but I have not been able to
>get the sndkit executables to work since I upgraded to 0.99pl9. (I did add the
>code for the driver to the kernel before compiling.) Now whenever I try to run
>a program that accesses /dev/dsp, I get a "Device not present" error. I know that
>this is not the case, because (a) the file is there same as before, (b) I really
>do have a SoundBlaster installed. Can anyone help? Has anyone successfully gotten
>the SoundBlaster code to work under 0.99pl9? I asked about this a while ago, but
>got no replies. So I ask again... =8-)
I have snd-kit etc. running just fine with 99p9 and a SB 2.0(8-bit).
I used virgin(ie., un-tarred, non-patched hierarchy) code, and added the
necessary files to kernel/chr_drv/sound(or whatever).
It was a simple matter of make config, selecting the full driver kit, and then
doing the requisite make dep; make zImage.
You might want to just grab the 99p9 source(the full 600-700k) tar.z file from
an FTP site and work from there. I occasionally made some dumb-ass manoeuvers
that tended to mung mine when I went from 99=>1=>2=>3=>4=>5=>6 so I just
started grabbing the full kit every time.
If you have any problems, I could theoretically recompile my kit on my machine
with your defaults, and mail you a kernel. This would be a last resort as I
have an LD UUCP/mail/news feed.
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