From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jim" Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 02:04:01 +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 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 To: rtlynch@aracnet.com Cc: Linux Sound Mailing List ; Linux Sound Mailing List ; Adam Wiggins ; Hamish Moffatt 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 >