On Fri, 24 May 2002, Kerry Hoath wrote: > Let's be realistic, most modern boards have soundcards on them, > and something half decent can be had for $10US so > gone are the days of pc-speaker and parallel port dongles True, but the issue we were talking about is the fact that sound usually isn't set up on an installation CD and many people don't initially know how to get it working in Linux. Also, if they choose Alsa or kernel modules, sound isn't ready until some time after the bootup process has started. The whole point of a PC speaker driver would be to provide speech to somebody who doesn't have a hardware synth and wants to get Linux up and running. Granted, I don't think it's real practical, but that was what was being discussed as I understand it.
