Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 18:26:47 -0500 (EST) From: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> To: "Brandon D. Valentine" <brandon@dvalentine.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Standard sbc and pcm support in GENERIC kernel? Message-ID: <20040304182602.S31161@xeon.unixathome.org> In-Reply-To: <20040304205210.GJ490@geekpunk.net> References: <20040303160340.700C5170D4@www.wcborstel.nl> <20040304205210.GJ490@geekpunk.net>
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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/
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