Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] SuSE 8.0 kernel & PE/LL patches question
From: Frank Ekeberg H. (frank_AT_plingplong.com)
Date: Sat May 11 2002 - 10:16:19 EEST
Look at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/tiwai/suse-patches/
frank
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 04:42:12PM +0200, Linium wrote:
> Le Vendredi 10 Mai 2002 10:37, vous avez écrit :
> > Hi,
> > Does anyone know how the default SuSE 8.0 2.4.18-SuSE kernel is configured
> > and patched? Does it have the PE (Robert Love) & LL (Andrew Morton) patches
> > built-in? I couldn't successfully patch the sources, though I was able to
> > patch the "linux" package (pure 2.4-18 kernel) sources. Also which parts
> > from "sound" configuration (make menuconfig) should be taken into kernel to
> > be able to use ALSA drivers and API's (I don't want OSS)? I've read that
> > "soundcore" should be included in kernel but there's no such package. Also
> > with jack libs there's dependency to libsndlib.so, what's that one, where
> > can I find it? -Mikko
>
> I had a similar problem applying the mandrake kernel source with the low
> latency patch.
> The source kernel shipped is very different from the standard one.
> I think that Suse, Mandrake and probably others distro makers add a lot of
> "enhancements" to offer to consumers the support for most recent hardwares.
> The result is that it is hard or impossible to apply any patch for standard
> kernel on it.
>
> You should select "sound card support" -> "yes" and that's all.
> You can still compile some drivers as modules if you wont, it won't hurt.
>
> For libsndlib.so i don't know, may be a file from the libs of Paul Barton
> David ?
>
> Linium
>
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