From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 11 10:36:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA22270 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 11 Jul 1998 10:36:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gk.erols.com (207-172-62-111.s111.tnt2.rcm.erols.com [207.172.62.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA22265 for ; Sat, 11 Jul 1998 10:36:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from KillG@erols.com) Received: from erols.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gk.erols.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA00345 for ; Sat, 11 Jul 1998 13:37:49 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from KillG@erols.com) Message-ID: <35A7A2E9.9BB7053F@erols.com> Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 13:37:46 -0400 From: Gk X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: newbie question about patching Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I am new to FreeBSD and I am attempting to get my soundblaster 32 sound card to work. I found that I needed Luigi Rizzo's pnp kernel mods, so I proceeded to download them from http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/pnp971020.tgz. After extracting the conents the README file contained this line -snip * apply the patches contained in "patches.225" to the following files: -snip Upon opening the file "patches.225" I found a lot of cryptic looking text like -snip --- /sys/i386/conf/files.i386.orig Mon Sep 15 06:56:49 1997 +++ /sys/i386/conf/files.i386 Sat Oct 18 11:45:19 1997 @@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ i386/isa/pcvt/pcvt_out.c optional vt device-driver i386/isa/pcvt/pcvt_sup.c optional vt device-driver i386/isa/pcvt/pcvt_vtf.c optional vt device-driver +i386/isa/pnp.c optional pnp device-driver i386/isa/prof_machdep.c optional profiling-routine i386/isa/psm.c optional psm device-driver -snip My question is how exactly do I apply the patches? Am I missing some info about how this is done? Thanks for any help in advance, -Gk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message