Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 13:37:46 -0400 From: Gk <KillG@erols.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: newbie question about patching Message-ID: <35A7A2E9.9BB7053F@erols.com>
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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
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