building kernel for ac97 sound card

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Can't you ssh into your Gentoo box and do a lsmod there?

On Mon, 26 Oct 2020, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

> It does if you understand I am using another version of Linux on this
> machine that does speak and the only way I'm ever going to find out what
> lsmod did or didn't load on gentoo is to actually get gentoo talking and
> the sound card working first. On Mon, 26 Oct 2020, Linux for blind general
> discussion wrote:
>
>> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 08:28:48
>> From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>> To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>> Subject: Re: building kernel for ac97 sound card
>>
>> If you see an entry for your sound card in the output of lsmod, it means that
>> your kernel successfully loaded the module for your sound card.
>> So what you suggest to do does not make sens at all.
>> Regards, Willem
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 26 Oct 2020, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
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>>> I found /usr/src/linux/.config which if I have this right is where make
>>> menuconfig stores your choices as they're made.  So erasing that file gets
>>> you a clean start when necessary.  Reading through lsmod output I find
>>> several sound card elements on lines in that output.  What I'm going to
>>> try next time is to enable each element starting at the end of each of
>>> those lines and going to the beginning of those lines.  Sound card
>>> elements are either in first position in lines or later positions and the
>>> later positioned elements use the earlier positioned elements.  This is a
>>> strictly proper order problem open the doors in the proper order and you
>>> get to the treasure room.
>>>
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