Re: AWE64 initial questions

[llornkcor@llornkcor.com]

No- 
        Linux wouldnt crash....

On 13-Sep-98 Jim wrote:
> 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
>>