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    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@users.sourceforge.net>
    # Date 1210878004 -14400
    # Node ID 26bbbefc222c5a7fffc15c34422ff0408a4d6dc3
    # Parent 903c7be2316a6b892c8c20a0a8a6e21cd9a9ee8c
    snd-pcsp: adjust help texts to frighten users.

    Signed-off-by: Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru>

    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
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