From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 15 13: 7:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (placeholder-dcat-1076843399.broadbandoffice.net [64.47.83.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A34737B404 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:06:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id f0FL6l487391; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:06:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:06:47 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200101152106.f0FL6l487391@earth.backplane.com> To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: opentrax@email.com, keichii@peorth.iteration.net, roman@harmonic.co.il, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OOPS.. (Re: MFC? src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC and sound support) References: <83645.979588312@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think it would be a bad idea to put sound in GENERIC, not so much because the concept is a bad idea, but because there are a huge number of sound chips on the market with varying levels of compatibility and complexity and probing for them in GENERIC could result in GENERIC not working on as wide a range of machines as it would otherwise. When I install on a workstation, I always install without sound first to get the thing working, then I mess around with the sound drivers. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message