Re: Amateur

[Harvey Kelly <nospam [at] kellypowell.clara.co.uk>]

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From: <will [at] south-of-heaven.demon.co.uk>
To: <sheflug [at] listbot.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2000 3:22 AM
Subject: Re: Amateur

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> > Whilst it's booting I get a message saying Starting kerneld, version
=
> > 2.2.2-pre6 (pid10) and that I really don't want to be running it =
> > with... I can't remember. I read a doc that told me, I think, that I've
=
> > got two programs doing the same job. Later on, just before I can login,
=
> > it says the same message, but ...(pid53). What is this? Am I f**king =
> > up my system? How do I fix it?
>
> The linux kernel used to use kerneld to load kernel modules (e.g. for
> sound, ppp, filesystems). Kerneld has been replaced in later kernels by
> kmod, which is built into the kernel. You SHOULD be able to simply
> remove the initd entries for kerneld, though don't sue me if it goes
wrong. :)
> To remove the entries, find the directory containing the initscripts. On
RedHat
> it's in /etc/rc.d/, but I heard SuSE might have it in /sbin/rc.d/.
> In the directory there should be directories numbered from rc0.d/ to
> rc6.d/. Remove all the files with names containing kerneld, and things
> should be fixed. I'm not an SuSE expert, though it should work.
>
Worked great, thanks a lot. They were in /etc/rc.d/, and /sbin/rc.d/ held a
program - all gone.

> > Also, oh please help, I can't get any sound. I've got access to two =
> > sound cards a Videologic SonicStorm Pro (ESS Maestro), and a Terratec =
> > something (ESS slot-1). I thought all I had to do was click on a button
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> > in xconfig, reboot, and that would be that. I never got any sound with
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> > 2.2.10, but then again I never tried. It'll be great if you could help.
>
> The Maestro cards are supported, try looking at:
> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound/Maestro
>
Thanks again.

Harvey
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