Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:38:54 +0100 From: Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz@wanadoo.es> To: freebsd-questions-en <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: I do not understand kernel modules Message-ID: <41EFA65E.80307@wanadoo.es>
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Hello friends. I am a FreeBSD newbie, I am going to ask you a question that I have not been able to solve reading the manual. I am using 5.3 release. I have compiled a custom kernel in my old pentium 75 MHz machine to include the driver for my sound card. I added the following lines to the kernel config file device sound device "snd_es137x" and compiled the kernel perfectly. (long time.... ;-) ) But there is something that I do not understand well. When I look at the contents of /boot/kernel/ directory, I found that there are kernel sound modules *.ko for every sound card the kernel supports. Should not there be my sound card module alone? Does It mean that you have to compile all the stuff, even if you are going to use only one kind of sound card? Am I missing something? Thanks in advance. Ramiro.
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