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- Lines: 35
- Date:
Wed Oct 11 07:55:37 1995
- Orig file:
v1.3.33/linux/drivers/sound/Readme.linux
- Orig date:
Tue Jul 11 10:02:51 1995
diff -u --recursive --new-file v1.3.33/linux/drivers/sound/Readme.linux linux/drivers/sound/Readme.linux
@@ -27,11 +27,15 @@
- Configure and compile Linux as normally (remember to include the
sound support during "make config").
-Boot time configuration (using lilo)
-------------------------------------
+Boot time configuration (using lilo and insmod)
+-----------------------------------------------
NOTE! This information is little bit obsolete since it doesn't cover
- some cards recently added to the driver.
+ some cards recently added to the driver. The following text
+ describes parameters just for some older cards. In addition
+ this method will not work with cards which have more than one
+ DMA channel or if the driver number is bigger than 15. (Driver
+ numbers are defined in soundcard.h).
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NOTE2! This method to configure the sound driver is not normally
@@ -42,6 +46,15 @@
So THE METHOD PRESENTED IN THIS CHAPTER IS NORMALLY COMPLETELY
USELESS. DON'T USE IT UNLESS YOU HAVE A VERY SPECIAL REASON TO
DO THAT.
+
+ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE NOTE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+ !!! Finding a working sound= command line is a difficult !!!
+ !!! and timeconsuming task. For this reason I will not !!!
+ !!! answer to messages asking about how to do it. So !!!
+ !!! please don't use this method if you have any problems !!!
+ !!! with it. !!!
+ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+
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This version of the sound driver has capability to accept the configuration
FUNET's LINUX-ADM group, linux-adm@nic.funet.fi
TCL-scripts by Sam Shen, slshen@lbl.gov
with Sam's (original) version of this