From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 7 8:57:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E5E137B8D5 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 08:57:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13Loyq-0008mN-00; Mon, 07 Aug 2000 16:38:20 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13Loyv-0005Zk-00; Mon, 07 Aug 2000 16:38:25 +0100 Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 16:38:25 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Ariel Burbaickij Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problmes with Soundblaster 16 pci getting commonplace and noend Message-ID: <20000807163825.K65753@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <20000806171208.G65753@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ariel Burbaickij wrote: > 1) I do not like upgrade procedure to 4.0 Buy CDs. Install. It really isn't difficult. The only hard part about upgrading to 4.0 is if you do a source upgrade. If you can't afford the CDs, download the ISO and burn it (or get someone with a CD-R to do so if you don't have one yourself). If you can't do that, just do an FTP install. What specifically don't you like about the binary upgrade? I know the source upgrade is a PITA, but I think that's true of all major version boundaries. > 2) It is to far for me to upgrade just for soundcard's sake.You > on your own have said that you have managed to get it running. > Why should I not ? I probably thought you were running 4.x when I said that. 3.x is a different matter, since as I said in my last mail the sound code has been significantly improved. There is NO POINT complaining that something doesn't work in 3.x, especially when you haven't even tried the card with a newer release. Unless you do the work yourself, it is unlikely to be fixed as that release is mostly getting just security fixes now, or fairly minor other fixes. Bringing in the whole of the sound code from 4.x is not going to happen. Well, if it does I'll be very surprised. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D FreeBSD Documentation Project / To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message