From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 16 2:32:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85F0837B400 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 02:32:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from siafu.iconnect.co.ke (upagraha.iconnect.co.ke [209.198.248.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACAEC6E2739 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 02:28:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from [64.110.74.50] (helo=poeza.iconnect.co.ke) by siafu.iconnect.co.ke with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 14ITH9-0000eM-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:24:29 +0300 Received: from wash by poeza.iconnect.co.ke with local (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14IDG3-0000AL-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:17:27 +0300 Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:17:27 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: FBSD-Q Subject: Re: Building New Kernel Message-ID: <20010115201727.B467@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , FBSD-Q References: <000b01c07ec4$b4d19de0$0100a8c0@mshome.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000b01c07ec4$b4d19de0$0100a8c0@mshome.net>; from "David Schultz" on Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 11:28:07PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD poeza.iconnect.co.ke 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Location: Mombasa, KE, East Africa Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * David Schultz [20010115 10:30]: writing on the subject 'Re: Building New Kernel' David> From: "Paul Andrews" David> > I have just installed 4.2-RELEASE and am in the process of creating a new David> > kernel so that my sound card is supported. I have just cvsup'd the latest David> > source tree for RELENG_4. David> > David> > What I need to know is which command set should I use after editing David> > MYKERNEL: David> > David> > Set #1 David> > cd /usr/src David> > make buildworld David> > make installworld David> > make buildkernel KERNEL=MYKERNEL David> > make installkernel KERNEL=MYKERNEL David> David> I have successfully used "Set #1", although it is not necessary to build David> world except (as in this case) when you have updated the source tree. David> David> > Second question is: Anyone had issues installing a SoundBlaster 16 PCI David> > Soundcard into there kernel. Is "device pcm" the only line required David> > to get the soundcard built into the kernel? David> David> That line should be the only one you need in the kernel configuration file; David> however, you will need to cd to /dev and type 'sh MAKEDEV snd0'. (This David> assumes that 'dmesg |grep pcm' reports that pcm0 is your sound device. David> Change the number as necessary.) I have had few problems with the SB Live David> and AWE 32, and I've been told that the SB 16 works fine. [Related Issue] ... I have this Creative Soundblaster (Audio PCI 128) and I have a kernel compiled with "device pcm" and dmesg tells me this: alouette# dmesg | grep pcm pcm0: port 0xec00-0xec3f irq 11 at device 12.0 on pci0 ....yes and I go into /dev and here are the results...hmmm alouette# sh MAKEDEV snd0 alouette# ls -al snd0 ls: snd0: No such file or directory alouette# ls -al snd* lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 7 Jan 9 17:21 snd1 -> sndstat crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 6 Jan 15 20:10 sndstat alouette# What could the problem be with me then??? Or am I just imagining my own things? TIA -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Inter-Connect Ltd., wash@iconnect.co.ke 5th Flr Furaha Plaza Tel: 254 11 222604 Nkrumah Rd., Fax: 254 11 222636 PO Box 83613 MOMBASA, KE. Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space. -Diana Black (contributed by Chris Johnston) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message