Re: AWE64 initial questions

["Jim" <aszure@gate.net>]

For the sake of sounding rude...
But if we did that, and make it all simple like, wouldnt we then have
windoze?

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Wreski <dave@nic.com>
To: rtlynch@aracnet.com <rtlynch@aracnet.com>
Cc: Linux Sound Mailing List <linux-sound@vger.rutgers.edu>; Linux Sound
Mailing List <linux-sound@vger.rutgers.edu>; Adam Wiggins <adam@angel.com>;
Hamish Moffatt <moffatt@cs.rmit.edu.au>
Date: Saturday, September 12, 1998 9:00 PM
Subject: Re: AWE64 initial questions


>
>On 12-Sep-98 rtlynch@aracnet.com wrote:
>> I would like to work on this.  I've been running linux for a while now
but
>> never have bothered with sound. The last time I compiled my kernel I
>> included sound as a module but haven't made time to play around with
>> getting the plug-n-prey to work.  This would be good experience for me as
>> well as force me to finish my system setup :->
>>
>> I was thinking of just implementing the script with perl. (Seems easy
>> anough.)  Are there any common pit falls that anyone can think of?
>
>Guys, while I think this is a good idea, and something that surely can help
a
>lot of people, perhaps your efforts would be better applied if you focused
on
>the sndconfig utility that already has a moderately-working implementation.
>
>Wouldn't it be better to start with the internals of sndconfig, port it to
your
>version of Linux, and resubmit the changes back to the maintainer of
sndconfig?
>
>Perhaps someone wants to make it gtk-capable, so we can have a graphical
means
>of controlling our PnP devices...
>
>Dave
>