Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 26 Aug 1998 19:13:48 -0700 (PDT) | | From | Dan Hollis <> | | Subject | Re: de4x5.c patch against 2.1.117 |
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On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > I think now that the retail cost of PCI cards is nor approaching that > for ISA, we will start to see more and more hardware become PCI only, > even perhaps modems (many soundcards are PCI now).
Most PCI cards tend to be ~50% more expensive than PnP ISA ones. So there are big economic reasons to go ISA, even though it is antiquated.
Linux has never really supported PnP, and now I hear people trying to avoid _any_ support entirely. Gah.
I thought the point of Linux was to try to support as much hardware as possible, even broken ones (eg Intel EtherExpress).
A good percentage of multimedia cards are PnP. In fact most recent soundchips (CS423x, ESS18xx) are PnP. Motherboards come with PnP soundchips embedded. And Linux doesnt really support any of them :-/
Is it any wonder why multimedia support on Linux still lags...
-Dan
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