Re: Gnome-terminal problems in RH 6.1

[Sean Murphy <murphy erim-int com>]

I currently have a dual processor board, but I don't have to processors yet - need
more money.  I think I did compile my own kernel under 6.0 without SMP support.  Do
you think that if I just recompiled a new kernel under 6.1 without SMP, that sound
would come back without me having to remember where I might have put the command?

Craig Orsinger wrote:

> On 15-Oct-99 Sean Murphy wrote:
> > they compiled it under (it's a module).  My brother in law (who knows a
> > bit more about Linux than I do) told me to put some command (think it
> > was something like 'insmod -f sblive' or maybe 'modprobe sblive')
> > somewhere and that got it to work.  Unfortunately, I can't remember what
> > the actual command was, or where we put it.  Any ideas?  Also, I have a
> > dual processor motherboard, and Creative Labs says the driver won't work
> > under an SMP kernel.  Does this make sense?  I think the RH 6.1 install
> > put an SMP kernel back into lilo, so maybe that is the problem?
> >
>         Most likely, it was the "insmod -f sblive" command that you
> used. It does, indeed, make sense that the sound driver might not be
> supported in SMP. OSS has separate releases of their sound drivers
> for SMP Linux. It has something to do with the fact that one processor
> is better able to handle I/O than the other one is. For more info on
> this, check the SMP Linux web sites. They're mentioned somewhere in
> the Linux Documentation Project site, which is at:
>
> http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/
>
>         According to OSS's web site, they will not be supporting
> the SBLive board any time soon, because Creative has not provided
> enough information about the board for the drivers to be written.
> There may be a free driver available somewhere that I don't know
> about, but it looks like you're dependent on Creative for the
> time being.
>
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> Date: 15-Oct-99  Time: 11:09:55
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