From:	mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
Date:	Tue, 11 Feb 1997 22:33:10 -0500 (EST)
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On Tue, 11 Feb 1997 jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com wrote:

> If plug and play is brought to linux, there's one feature I hope
> will be implemented beyond the plug and play standard.
> That is, if a file (name to be determined) exists in
> the directory in text format with initialization settings in it,
> linux should make the plug and play honor the initialization
> settings in that file or generate an error log file
> explaining why each setting can't be honored.  Had either Intel or
> Creative
> Labs done such a thing this whole plug and play system
> would have been far more enjoyable to use for all blind
> computer users than it has turned out to be.  All of this goes to prove
> the point, just because a business has lots of money don't necessarily
> mean it has the brains to back it up.

I couldn't agree with you more.  Plug and play is more like
"plug and play around", or "plug and pray".  I still prefer, and
always will, to assign settings to my hardware manually.  This
way when something doesn't work, you can easily reassign
something rather than wondering what IRQ something is on, and if
it is the same as the last time you rebooted.  I'm somewhat
disappointed that when I upgrade to a pentium I'll be stuck with
PNP and probably also with Linux problems.

Lets hope that the Linux community comes up with a good solution,
and soon.


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