Re: [TCLUG:11361] Caution: wide load

[Callum Lerwick <lerwick@tcfreenet.org>]

> > 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.)
> 
> Does /dev/dsp exist? Try "cd /dev", "./MAKEDEV audio" then set your
> permissions.

Well, the spiffy new modular sound on 2.2 needs some setup in
/etc/conf.modules

alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 gus
options gus io=0x240 irq=11 dma=3

This is my setup with a Gravis Ultrasound...

You can do multple sound cards by aliasing to sound-slot-1,
sound-slot-2, etc...