[CentOS] Re: ISA Support in CentOS 4.4?
Johnny Hughes
mailing-lists at hughesjr.com
Sat Jan 27 14:19:38 UTC 2007
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 at gmail.com> wrote in
> > message news:302ce8b50701251406w203a6a06k999b65050b6df77b at mail.gmail.com...
> >>> 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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