Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 14:51:52 -0500 From: Mathew Kanner <mat@cnd.mcgill.ca> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: Randy Pratt <rpratt1950@earthlink.net> Subject: Re: Standard sbc and pcm support in GENERIC kernel? Message-ID: <20040304195152.GA35653@cnd.mcgill.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040304114614.49288C-100000@fledge.watson.org> References: <20040303163157.3440f8cb.rpratt1950@earthlink.net> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040304114614.49288C-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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On Mar 04, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Randy Pratt wrote: > > > On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 17:03:40 +0100 (CET) you 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. > > > > I think I've read more than one time about problems fitting the > > installation on the 1.44M floppies. > > > > Definitely a bikeshed discussion but adding to the documentation > > regarding kldload or a knob in sysinstall to turn on all sound modules > > is preferable to adding to the kernel. > > Actually, pcm was in GENERIC for a while, but was removed because it > caused hangs on boot with a common line of Dell Latitude notebooks at the > time. The problem is likely now fixed, and I'd certainly not object to it > being in GENERIC as long as there are no similar widespread issues now. Hello All, I would like to note that kldload'ing the sound modules works very well and I would prefer that to be standard operating procedure for sound. I have a patch for the PCM man page that includes this tid-bit. --Mat -- In general, a standard is very useful, whether it's de facto or du jour. - Microsoft's Greg Sullivan as misquoted by News.Com
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