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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