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Date:      Tue, 12 Sep 2000 22:21:17 -0400
From:      Raymond Law <rlaw@vt.edu>
To:        Gene Harris <zeus@tetronsoftware.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /boot/kernel.conf
Message-ID:  <4.3.0.20000912222015.00ce6750@mail.vt.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009122044150.5410-100000@ns1.tetronsoftware.com>
References:  <4.3.0.20000912211319.00b1d5e0@mail.vt.edu>

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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.
> >
> >
> >
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> >
>
>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



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