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Date:      Fri, 5 Mar 2004 14:49:45 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        Randy Pratt <rpratt1950@earthlink.net>
Subject:   Re: Standard sbc and pcm support in GENERIC kernel?
Message-ID:  <200403051446.38592.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040303163157.3440f8cb.rpratt1950@earthlink.net>
References:  <20040303163157.3440f8cb.rpratt1950@earthlink.net>

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On Wednesday 03 March 2004 04:31 pm, Randy Pratt wrote:
> On Wed,  3 Mar 2004 17:03:40 +0100 (CET) you 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.
>
> I think I've read more than one time about problems fitting the
> installation on the 1.44M floppies.

That's no longer a problem in 5.x.  I would like to see pcm(4) added back to 
GENERIC on 5.x.  4.x has been around long enough that its GENERIC can 
probably just stay the way it is.

-- 
John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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