Caution: wide load

[Christopher Reid Palmer <reid@pconline.com>]

I've got a fresh install of Macmillan 6.5 (=Mandrake 6.1), and I must say,
I'm beginning to see why people don't like Red Hat. :] All along I've been
happy with my solid 4.2 and 5.2 systems, and now this. Many things are
inexplicably b0rked.

But that's a rant for another day.

My trouble is that this is the first time I've used Linux 2.2 (2.2.13 to
be exact) and I can't seem to get everything in the kernel that I want. I
want to have my Ethernet driver and my sound card driver compiled into the
kernel at once, not modules. They work better (read: they work) when
compiled directly into the kernel. (For example, when compiled as a
module, my sound card driver (SB16) think there is no /dev/dsp, and then
then the audio program that forced the loading of the module (e.g.,
mpg123(1)) bombs out, saying /dev/dsp does not exist.)

If I do compile everything directly into the kernel, LILO fails to
install, saying the kernel is too big (~450KB). What's up with that?
Compiling as 'make bzImage' (vs. 'zImage') doesn't seem to make a
difference.

Any clues?

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  Christopher Reid Palmer : http://www.innerfireworks.com/