There are those who would have you believe that robert_wilhelm_land wrote: > What is the soundlow & the soundcore used for? > > I'm just trying to get my Sonic Impact to work (which should be a OSS > card) and cannot find any of the below modules in 'make xconfig'. The > present deb 2.2 has both modules loaded but I have no idea what they > are used for. The installation routine (by booting from CD#1) had as > far as I can remember a various list of sound options which I'm not > able to find in the xconfig app. > > > Would someone help to clarify? > > Partly out of 'lsmod' (current installation): > > sound 57592 0 (unused) > soundlow 416 0 [sound] > soundcore 2628 3 [sound] >
Pick "Sound card support" to get soundcore.o and "OSS sound modules" for sound.o (both as modules). I'm not sure about soundlow.o, but I believe you get that if you go into the "Additional low level sound drivers". You can probably find more details under Documentation/sound.