Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 14:52:10 -0600 From: "Brandon D. Valentine" <brandon@dvalentine.com> To: Jorn Argelo <jorn@wcborstel.nl> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Standard sbc and pcm support in GENERIC kernel? Message-ID: <20040304205210.GJ490@geekpunk.net> In-Reply-To: <20040303160340.700C5170D4@www.wcborstel.nl> References: <20040303160340.700C5170D4@www.wcborstel.nl>
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On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 05:03:40PM +0100, Jorn Argelo wrote: > > 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. If they'd read pcm(4) they'd know how to get sound support up and running without recompiling their kernel. Is there something wrong with requiring that a new user bother to read the documentation? [ I do not speak for the FreeBSD project. ] Brandon D. Valentine -- brandon@dvalentine.com http://www.geekpunk.net Pseudo-Random Googlism: march is great success
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