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icowell@mpce.mq.edu.au (COWELL Ian Maurice) wrote:

>No, his is talking about a different card configuration.
>Have you configured the sound card and recompiled the kernel?

>If you are booting Linux and you get the LILO prompt 
>(This is assuming that you are using the distribution boot disk)
>boot:
>then you can type
>boot: linux sbpcd=0x230,SoundBlaster
>The 0x230 is the Audio Base I/O Address.
>This will tell the SoundBlaster driver (sbpcd) the information where to 
>find the drive. 
>
>The sound card driver is set to look for the ATAPIdriver. It will still 
>attempt to find this drive, but then will look for the sbpcd configuration.
>This is what I did with a standard configuration for a SB16 Soundblaster 
>card with a CreativeLabs drive attached.

I am quite confused here. Are you saying that without any help
linux can't boot if I have CR562b+SB16?

>To fix the problem, you will have to compile the kernel (which the drivers 
>are part) after configuring the "sound card".
>You also have to update the sbpcd.h file, but this can be done once the 
>driver is working.

The kernel compiled for sbpcd is included in the Redhat 
distribution. Do I still need to compile the kernal
myself?


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