Messages in this thread | | | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: observations on 2.5 config screens | Date | Wed, 1 Jan 2003 20:26:18 +0000 (GMT) |
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> > Multimedia devices > > > > How come "Sound" is not here? And (as we've already > > established), Radio Adapters is not a sub-entry of Video for > > Linux. :-) (And is there a reason why Amateur Radio Support > > and Radio Adapters are so far apart in the config menus? > > Yeah, this one is a puzzle. <g>
Amateur Radio Support contains options to do with things like ham radio modem support.
Radio Adaptors contains options to do with radio tuner cards.
Radio adaptors was originally put together with Video for Linux, because when there were only a few radio adaptors supported, it seemed logical to group them with video capture cards, which often have television tuners on them.
Most of the illogical grouping of configuration options has come about because of the way the kernel has evolved.
For example, before IDE and SCSI CD-ROM drives because popular, CD-ROM drives were a completely separate configuration category. Now that IDE and SCSI CD-ROM drives are much more popular than proprietary interface CD-ROM drives, the configuration options for them are grouped with the IDE and SCSI options.
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