Re: Sound configuration not in initial install
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, George Bonser wrote:
: On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
:
: > On Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 09:09:32AM -0600, David Webster wrote:
: > > During the drivers installation phase there is no facility for
: > > installing sound card info. I find this quite odd since sound is as
: > > ubiquitous in computing today as ethernet and TCP/IP. The failure to
: >
: > Not on Unix, IMHO. But anyway ...
:
: Huh? Just about every commercial Unix has audio support by default. When
: was the last time you installed Solaris? I get great delight from sending
: weird sounds to people's Sun workstations from time to time. The
: "flatulnt newbie" is my favorite trick. Works great in cube-farms.
Yeah, and Suns have as many variations as exist in the Intel world ...
not. This is an advantage to "closed" architecture (see Apple
Computing :)
Nevertheless, it's probably possible to make sound installation a lot
less painful with Linux (and specifically Debian), but I don't know how
to do this ...
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