On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 11:45 -0800, Scott Silva wrote: > Eric B. spake the following on 1/25/2007 6:11 PM: > > "Jim Perrin" <jperrin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in > > message news:302ce8b50701251406w203a6a06k999b65050b6df77b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >>> Is the stock 2.6.9-42.EL kernel compiled with ISA support? Do i need to > >>> rebuild the kernel by hand? Is there anything I need to do to enable ISA > >>> support in CentOS4.4? If I do need to rebuild the kernel, what > >> > >> Nope. The kernel was built without isa support. There was a mailing > >> list thread a while back (the exactly link escapes me) which explained > >> how to rebuild with ISA support specifically, however the wiki > >> (wiki.centos.org) contains the steps needed to build a custom kernel. > >> > >> Support for ISA may have been built into the centosplus kernel by > >> Johnny, but I honestly can't remember if he did that or not. > > > > Thanks for the advice. I followed the instructions on the wiki to rebuild > > the kernel (still waiting for the kernel to finish rebuilding), but I was > > confused by one thing. The current kernel2.6.9-i686.config file shows the > > ISA option to be enabled. Wouldn't that be the default setting of the > > kernel then? I am running 2.6.9-42.EL. Wouldn't that imply that it is > > enabled on that kernel then? Is there a way I can check to validate that it > > isn't already enabled? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Eric > In your /boot directory is the config file that is generated when the kernel > rpm was created. You will have one for every installed kernel. It looks like CONFIG_ISA is set in the latest kernels from upstream as a module. ISA sound cards are not enabled. BUT ... do yourself a favor and try to use a PCI card anyway :P
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