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Subject: Re: HEADSUP: pca driver being retired. 
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>> It's also handy if you don't have external speakers hooked up to a
>> machine, and want something better than beeps.
>
> Would it be a useful exercise for the minority(?) of users who use this
> driver to either see if it can be effectively newbussed or turned into
> a port or both?

i'd quite like to see it reimplemented as a pcm driver; it's been on the 
todo list for years and should be quite simple.  pca at present supports a 
very limited subset of the oss interface, where as a pcm driver it would 
behave the same as any other sound device.

	-cg