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Date:      Wed,  3 Mar 2004 18:08:58 +0100 (CET)
From:      Cordula's Web <cpghost@cordula.ws>
To:        jorn@wcborstel.nl
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Standard sbc and pcm support in GENERIC kernel?
Message-ID:  <20040303170858.AC69040830@fw.farid-hajji.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040303160340.700C5170D4@www.wcborstel.nl> (jorn@wcborstel.nl)
References:  <20040303160340.700C5170D4@www.wcborstel.nl>

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[jorn@wcborstel.nl]
> I've been on the question list for some time, and I have noticed that
> many people do not know how to get sound support up and running in
> FreeBSD 5.X. I know that re-compiling the kernel is easy enough, but
> there are still people not willing to do so, as I have noticed on the
> list. Therefor I thought it might be an idea to put sound support in the
> GENERIC kernel configuration, so that newbies will no longer find
> themselves stuck with that.

Yes, it would be great to have this in GENERIC,
since it is a major annoyance for x86 desktop users.

An alternative would be a knob in /etc/rc.conf
which would invoke "kldload snd" (or whatever).

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