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 ... -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
