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? >
No, but it is also a reasonable expectation for the OS to autodetect and load support for common hardware - which includes most of the popular soundcards. > [ I do not speak for the FreeBSD project. ] > > Brandon D. Valentine > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geekpunk.net > Pseudo-Random Googlism: march is great success > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
