From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Wreski Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 14:16:37 +0000 Subject: Re: AWE64 initial questions Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org > What's wrong with isapnptools? Works fine for me. Setting up /etc/isapnp.conf > is a bit harder than letting Windows do it for you, but Linux is general > requires more intelligence than 95/98 at present. As a result, you get > more flexibility; isapnp doesn't care where you stick your hardware, while > Windows will do everything it can to stop you manually allocating machine > resources. There's nothing wrong with isapnptools, necessarily. It would just be nice if first it was easy to do, then it was very customizable. While we're boasting about how configurable it is to use, the idiot windows users are listing to the latest Pearl Jam, and playing Quake. > To me, Linux uses isapnp just like software setup of ethernet cards; it > lets me pick where to put hardware without changing jumpers, rather than > allocating it where it THINKS it fits. Well, I also agree here, but if we keep demanding this, it could later provide unecessary constraints on PC vendors, requring they ship a machine with a jumper-based board. (Among other problems, I'm sure...) Dave