On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 01:00:08AM +0300, Amir Tal wrote: > On Saturday 31 August 2002 16:22, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 02:55:39PM +0300, Amir Tal wrote: > > > hi, > > > > > > had this laptop running RH73 with sound working, no prob. > > > switched to sid, and lspci doesnt show any info about the sound card. > > > of cource modprobe tells me to go to hell (no hardware). > > > > > > settings in the bios are the same, didnt touch anything since it last > > > worked with RH. > > > > > > debian sid, 2.4.19, toshiba tecra8000. > > > > > > help...? > > > > Get redhat's kernel rpm. Apply the necessary patches it contains to > > the vanilla kernel. Build the kernel. Boot. Make sure it works. Find > > out which patch was necessary for you. Mail the kernel mailing list > > asking for its inclusion into the kernel proper. > > i hate to sound like a lazy ass, but there's got to be a more simple solution > then that. after all, i was running 2.4.18 on that RH, not patched or > anything, and everything was supported out of the box.
*which* 2.4.18, the vanilla one, or redhat's one? If it's redhat's, it's patched with over 80 different patches... > i am thinking that since lspci dooesnt even show anything about the sound > device, then maybe its a hardware problem ? You just said that it was working before, so a hardware problem is not particularly likely. > before i'll go and start re-building my kernel, is there any chance that this > is not the case ? > its gonna be a bitch compiling it all over again for nothing on a P II, > 300Mhz. It's not that bad... but verifying that it's a software and not hardware problem should probably come first. Do you still have rh on that box as well?
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