From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG  Thu Mar  4 15:26:48 2004
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP
	id 0FB2516A4CE; Thu,  4 Mar 2004 15:26:48 -0800 (PST)
Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [66.11.174.150])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP
	id D50B143D2F; Thu,  4 Mar 2004 15:26:47 -0800 (PST)
	(envelope-from dan@langille.org)
Received: from xeon (xeon.unixathome.org [192.168.0.18])
	by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP
	id 0D5623D31; Thu,  4 Mar 2004 18:26:47 -0500 (EST)
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 18:26:47 -0500 (EST)
From: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>
X-X-Sender: dan@xeon.unixathome.org
To: "Brandon D. Valentine" <brandon@dvalentine.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040304205210.GJ490@geekpunk.net>
Message-ID: <20040304182602.S31161@xeon.unixathome.org>
References: <20040303160340.700C5170D4@www.wcborstel.nl>
	<20040304205210.GJ490@geekpunk.net>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
cc: Jorn Argelo <jorn@wcborstel.nl>
cc: stable@freebsd.org
cc: hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Standard sbc and pcm support in GENERIC kernel?
X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code
	<freebsd-stable.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable>,
	<mailto:freebsd-stable-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-stable-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable>,
	<mailto:freebsd-stable-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 23:26:48 -0000

On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Brandon D. Valentine wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 05:03:40PM +0100, Jorn Argelo 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.
>
> If they'd read pcm(4) they'd know how to get sound support up and
> running without recompiling their kernel.  Is there something wrong with
> requiring that a new user bother to read the documentation?

They would first have to know to read man pcm(4).

-- 
Dan Langille - BSDCan: http://www.bsdcan.org/