From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 13 7:38:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lennier.cc.vt.edu (lennier.cc.vt.edu [198.82.161.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6FEC37B42C for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 07:38:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.vt.edu (gkar.cc.vt.edu [198.82.161.190]) by lennier.cc.vt.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e8DEcMB374953 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:38:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from flaw.vt.edu ([198.82.82.148]) by gkar.cc.vt.edu (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.03.23.18.03.p10) with ESMTP id <0G0T00F3CXZXUZ@gkar.cc.vt.edu> for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:38:21 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:44:25 -0400 From: Raymond Law Subject: Re: /boot/kernel.conf In-reply-to: X-Sender: flaw@mail.vt.edu To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <4.3.0.20000913104314.00bb1840@mail.vt.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii References: <4.3.0.20000912222015.00ce6750@mail.vt.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chapter 7 in the handbook doesn't mention about /boot/kernel.conf. So I wonder if I have to configure pnp in /boot/kernel.conf also to make it work? At 05:54 AM 9/13/00 -0500, Gene Harris wrote: >You need to make a custom kernel that supports your sound card. If you have >not configured and installed a new kernel, you need to take a look at >http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/kernelconfig.html. You may also find a lot of >help by searching the mailing list archives on www.freebsd.org for your >specific sound card model. > >You may also look at /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC (kernel >configuratuion) and /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT for specific support for your >sound card. > >Gene Harris > >On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Raymond Law wrote: > > > What should I do to specified the parameters for my sound card. Do put > > that in /boot/kernel.conf? > > > > At 08:51 PM 9/12/00 -0500, Gene Harris wrote: > > >On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Raymond Law wrote: > > > > > > > What does /boot/kernel.conf do? Can you give me some examples of > using > > > > it? I am having trouble configuring my sound card and I saw > somewhere > > > that > > > > I need to enable pnp in this file. config keeps giving me the > warning: > > > > device pnp is unknown. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > >kernel.conf allows you to set some user configurable parameters at boot > > >time. You specify whether kernel.conf is loaded in > /etc/defaults/loader.conf. > > > > > >However, I doubt this is your problem. You may want to check your kernel > > >config file for a typo. You need to make sure that you have enabled > > >controller pnp0 in your config file. Based on your config error, it > sounds > > >like you have specified a line such as "device pnp", which is not a > > >recognized device (at least in 3.5.x) You will also need to make > sure you > > >have specified the correct parameters for your sound card and then > recompile. > > > > > >Gene > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message