Compiling in sound driver in kernel

[Bernt Hansson]

Polytropon said the following on 2009-06-12 12:54:
> On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:45:59 +0200, Bernt Hansson <bernt at bah.homeip.net> wrote:
>> Mel Flynn said the following on 2009-06-12 01:23:
>>>> FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #0: Thu Jun 11 21:56:24 CEST 2009
>>>>     root at fqdn:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
>>>                                      ^^^^^^^
>>> Did you edit GENERIC
>> Yes. Added sound and snd_hda
> 
> Polite note: This is NOT the way to create a custom kernel. The
> handbook mentions that it's advised to create a copy of GENERIC
> and work with that.

That's what i've done.


>>> or did you forget to set KERNCONF during build/installkernel?
>> No. cd /usr/src
>> make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC
>> make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC
>> reboot
>>
>> is what I did. No snd_hda
> 
> It looks understandable (allthough not mentioned in the handbook).
> Just to be sure, try the recommended approach. If you're not using
> KERNCONF, GENERIC will be selected automatically.
> 
> 	# cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
> 	# cp GENERIC MYKERNEL
> 	(or use any other descriptive name instead of MYKERNEL).
> 	edit MYKERNEL and add
> 		device sound
> 		device snd_hda

That's what i added.

> 	# cd /usr/src
> 	# make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL
> 	# make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL
> 	# reboot
> 
> Check /etc/make.conf and /etc/src.conf for any strange values
> that may be a reason for our strange observations.
> 
> 
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