[patch] snd-pcsp: adjust help texts to frighten users
- Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 23:08:51 +0400
- From: Stas Sergeev <stsp@xxxxxxxx>
- Subject: [patch] snd-pcsp: adjust help texts to frighten users
Hello.
Theodore Tso wrote:
>> I guess so, and in the description
>> string we can probably add something
>> to the effect of "READ HELP!".
> I don't know if this would be considered too ugly a suggestion to put
> in the Kconfig description, but the suggestion in:
By description I did actually mean a
menu string, not a help text.
In any case, here's what I mean, in
an attached patch.
PS: please let us know whether the new
PC-Speaker.conf allowed you to get any
sound from it.
# HG changeset patch
# User Stas Sergeev <stsp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
# Date 1210878004 -14400
# Node ID 26bbbefc222c5a7fffc15c34422ff0408a4d6dc3
# Parent 903c7be2316a6b892c8c20a0a8a6e21cd9a9ee8c
snd-pcsp: adjust help texts to frighten users.
Signed-off-by: Stas Sergeev <stsp@xxxxxxxx>
diff -r 903c7be2316a -r 26bbbefc222c Kconfig
--- a/Kconfig Thu May 08 21:20:04 2008 +0400
+++ b/Kconfig Thu May 15 23:00:04 2008 +0400
@@ -27,11 +27,6 @@ config SOUND
after the PnP configuration is finished. To do this, choose M here
and read <file:Documentation/sound/oss/README.modules>; the module
will be called soundcore.
-
- I'm told that even without a sound card, you can make your computer
- say more than an occasional beep, by programming the PC speaker.
- Kernel patches and supporting utilities to do that are in the pcsp
- package, available at <ftp://ftp.infradead.org/pub/pcsp/>.
source "sound/oss/dmasound/Kconfig"
diff -r 903c7be2316a -r 26bbbefc222c drivers/Kconfig
--- a/drivers/Kconfig Thu May 08 21:20:04 2008 +0400
+++ b/drivers/Kconfig Thu May 15 23:00:04 2008 +0400
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ menu "Generic devices"
config SND_PCSP
- tristate "PC-Speaker support"
+ tristate "PC-Speaker support (READ HELP!)"
depends on X86_PC && HIGH_RES_TIMERS
depends on SND
select SND_PCM
@@ -17,11 +17,21 @@ config SND_PCSP
You can compile this as a module which will be called snd-pcsp.
+ WARNING: if you already have a soundcard, enabling this
+ driver may lead to a problem. Namely, it may get loaded
+ before the other sound driver of yours, making the
+ pc-speaker a default sound device. Which is likely not
+ what you want. To make this driver play nicely with other
+ sound driver, you can add this into your /etc/modprobe.conf:
+ options snd-pcsp index=2
+
You don't need this driver if you only want your pc-speaker to beep.
You don't need this driver if you have a tablet piezo beeper
in your PC instead of the real speaker.
- It should not hurt to say Y or M here in all other cases.
+ Say N if you have a sound card.
+ Say M if you don't.
+ Say Y only if you really know what you do.
config SND_PCSP_INPUT
def_bool y