From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 2 20:23:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62A8C37B419 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 20:23:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA08663; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 20:23:06 -0800 Message-ID: <3C33DCA8.6080004@owt.com> Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 20:23:04 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Graybosch Cc: bastill@sa.apana.org.au, FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: soundcard install References: <007101c19326$43d99da0$f429a4cb@CO3024476A> <02010216575000.01096@BAPhD.gihon.org.au> <20020102072400.0da0be5d.matthew@starbreaker.net> <02010314350502.02042@BAPhD.gihon.org.au> <20020102231557.445ed5d8.matthew@starbreaker.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Graybosch wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 14:35:05 +1030 > Brian Astill wrote: > > >>Congratulations - rebuilding the kernel is on page one of The Manual, I >>presume? I didn't see it there. >>I thought, in my innocence, that rebuilding kernels was something you >>do when much more familiar with the OS than I am. >> > > Actually, rebuilding the kernel is Chapter 09 of the Handbook. Here's a > link: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html > > What it came to was this: I wanted my soundcard to work. After RFTM, I > concluded that the best way to make the card work permanently was to rebuild > the kernel. So I read the relevant sections of the handbook and did it. > > Then again, I did spend about two years using Linux, and compiled several > Linux 2.4 kernels in the process. Compared to Linux 2.4, the FreeBSD kernel > is a piece of cake to rebuild, IMHO. Never could get used to source code control on Linux but maintaining your world on FreeBSD is pretty simple. Most of it can be done with simple shell scripts. I tee the output from everything and that is hard to get right when you enter the commands by hand. I also convert my cvsup log into html that is linked back to freebsd.org. Kent > > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message