Standard sbc and pcm support in GENERIC kernel?

[Brandon D. Valentine]

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 do not speak for the FreeBSD project. ]

Brandon D. Valentine
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