On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>
> On 28-Sep-99 Thomas Vogels wrote:
> >
> > "Sean" == Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > Sean> Read the doc in /usr/src/linux/Documentation (or whereever you placed
> > your
> > Sean> kernel source). It boils down to:
> > Sean>
> > Sean> make {menu,x}config
> > Sean> sound as module
> > Sean> sound blaster
> > Sean> opl2/opl3
> > Sean> mpu-401
> > Sean>
> > Sean> recompile
> > Sean> insmod soundcore
> > Sean> insmod sound
> > Sean> insmod uart401
> > Sean> modprobe opl3
> > Sean> insmod sb irq=5 io=0x220 dma=0
> >
> > Sounds pretty scary to me, and I've been around for a while. What's
> > wrong with "depmod -a" to get module dependencies right and turning on
> > kerneld? Any access to eg. /dev/sndstat will now magically load all
> > necessary modules.
> >
>
> Because you need to be able to give the options to the sb module. Depmod
> wont.
Can't you just stick an "options" line into /etc/modutils/aliases? I'm
using
options sb io=0x220 irq=9 dma=0 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x300
and it seems to work. I stumbled upon this idea in
.../linux/Documentation/sound/AWE32
