Re: how to patch a file.

[Cameron Simpson <cs zip com au>]

On 21 Sep 1999, in message <19990920234959 59167 qmail hotmail com>
  "eugene kim" <eugene_baylor hotmail com> wrote:
| i've to patch some file against kernel versions 2.2.5
| that adds support for the 256AV audio/video chipsets.
| 
| and what i know is
| # patch < sony-patch-2.2.11
| ..
| and reconfigure the kernel for NeoMagic sound support
| as a module.
| 
| but when i write down #patch < sony-patch-2.2.11
| it looks to require me to give more information..
| so i killed that procedure by ctrl-c

That's because "#" is the root shell prompt. It's also the shell comment
character, so typing
	#patch .....
is a no-op. Just type
	patch < sony-patch-2.2.11

You want to be standing in /usr/src with the 2.2.11 kernel source
in the linux/ subdirectory when you type that, most likely.

| and i don't know how to reconfigure kernel either.
| i'm using redhat 6.0 (gnorpm)

Once patched, cd into the linux tree and type
	make menuconfig
if you're using the console (no X windows) or
	make xconfig
if you're using X windows. Then check the NeoMagic options in
the Sound and/or Drivers subsections.
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