David J Kanter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DJK> My kernel, 2.2.13, was not compiled with sound support because my DJK> card had no drivers. Now it apparently does: the Aureal Vortex 2 DJK> chipset at linux.aureal.com. Do I need to (re-download and) DJK> re-compile the kernel to enable sound support, or is there DJK> something simpler I can do? The "drivers" are apparently object DJK> files.
They're probably loadable kernel modules. You can load them with insmod(8) or modprobe(8), or possibly with kmod, the kernel-based module autoloader. An overview is in modules.txt in the kernel documentation. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
