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Subject: Re: rebuild kernel
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On Monday 07 July 2003 12:27, Cristophe Coutand wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just install FreeBSD on my laptop 

What version ? Some things are different between 4.x and 5.x

> and I need to rebuild the kernel
> to make my sound card working.

See 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/multimedia.html
man (4) pcm
apropos sound

> Is there a kernel configuration file generated by the installation ?

No. It's generic ;)

> I read that the /usr/src/sys/i386/cong/GENERIC is the configuration
> file of the kernel but does this file contain the configuration of my
> own kernel

It's your own kernel -- since now your running on the generic kernel.

> or should I verified each line of this file to check if
> the config match with my hardware ?

Read 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html
and
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/kernelconfig.html

also see /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT (if on 4.x) or 
/usr/src/sys/i386/conf/NOTES (if on 5.x)
which contain all the posssible configuration option for the kernel

>
> I know I have a lot of questions but is someone know if the CDRW on
> usb port as suported by the kernel and how I can make it works ?
> (which device should I add in the kernel configuration file ?)

It would be usefull to allways give more information like:
the output of #uname -a
the output of #dmesg

so we know on what version you are and what you harware is.


IOnut