> Ah, when I think of "cool features" I generally think > that that means > features I have seen working elsewhere and which > address a problem I > currently have under Solaris. > > In the case of the sound driver: there are cases > where the driver thinks > it's all OK but the sound is distorted; so a more > generic "reset this > device" function might be more appropriate. > > Casper
Hello Casper, Indeed you're right; this is not a feature adressing a problem I have on my Solaris box (actually I have no problem with my Solaris computer, I try to imagine some problems I could have :-) You may have noticed english is not my mother tongue, and maybe I haven't been clear, then I'll try to explain better. This feature by itself is not *that* cool, I was thinking about cool things it'd permit to do. Imagine I'm listening some music on my computer. Suddenly, sound stops working. If this is a driver bug, and assuming I'm a end-user (not any kind of computer engineer), there's not much I can do. But if my window manager pops up an information window, which says : "Hurg ! It seems your naughty sound card driver has crashed. Do you want to try to reset it ? [YES] [NO] Do you want to unload and reload it ? [YES] [NO] Do you want to send a bug report to the maintainer ? [YES] [NO] Do you want to be informed by email when it is fixed ? [YES] [NO] [ ] don't ask again [ ] remember my choices " Of course, if the driver crashes every minute, this won't help much. But if it is once a week for ex., I could live with it. This is the kind of behavior I think could be nice. Yann This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
