From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jul 19 14:10:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA12372 for current-outgoing; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 14:10:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gargoyle.clark.net (qmailr@gargoyle.clark.net [168.143.0.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA12367 for ; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 14:10:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 21026 invoked by uid 500); 19 Jul 1997 21:17:42 -0000 Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 17:17:42 -0400 (EDT) From: "Paul D. Robertson" X-Sender: proberts@gargoyle To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I am contemplating the following change... In-Reply-To: <21008.869326490@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 19 Jul 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > It's far more common in the 8 bit cards, yes. I would, however, > hypothesize that the 16 bit cards have now (or will very shortly) > outnumber the legacy equipment. I do know that I've certainly 16bit OEM SoundBlasters used to ship with IRQ5. Not sure if they still do or not. > How does the "user base" feel about this? I'd prefer to have the network card come up initially, sound isn't as important in a Unix to me as networking is. If there's a conflict, the sound card is always the one I toss out. Paul ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Robertson "My statements in this message are personal opinions proberts@clark.net which may have no basis whatsoever in fact." PSB#9280