From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 5 02:00:44 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A01116A4CE; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 02:00:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.wcborstel.nl (node-c-0ab6.a2000.nl [62.194.10.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CF6C43D39; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 02:00:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jorn@wcborstel.nl) Received: by www.wcborstel.nl (Postfix, from userid 80) id E946B170D5; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 11:00:21 +0100 (CET) To: brandon@dvalentine.com Received: from 172.16.1.4 (auth. user jorn@www.wcborstel.nl) by www.wcborstel.nl with HTTP; Fri, 05 Mar 2004 10:00:21 +0000 X-IlohaMail-Blah: jorn@www.wcborstel.nl X-IlohaMail-Method: mail() [mem] X-IlohaMail-Dummy: moo X-Mailer: IlohaMail/0.8.12 (On: www.wcborstel.nl) In-Reply-To: <20040304205210.GJ490@geekpunk.net> From: "Jorn Argelo" Bounce-To: "Jorn Argelo" Errors-To: "Jorn Argelo" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <20040305100021.E946B170D5@www.wcborstel.nl> Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 11:00:21 +0100 (CET) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 05:05:18 -0800 cc: stable@freebsd.org cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Standard sbc and pcm support in GENERIC kernel? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 10:00:44 -0000 On 3/4/2004, "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? I guess that that is the main problem. Some newbies don't read any documentation at all. They think that installing and configuring FreeBSD is as easy as Bill's software is ... Anyway, I was merely suggesting something, but if the list disagrees with me, then it's alright with me. Thanks for all the responses though, it gave me some insight. Cheers, Jorn.