Subject: Re: Philips USB speakers - avoid
To: David Brownlee <abs@formula1.com>
From: Brian Hechinger <wonko@tmok.com>
List: current-users
Date: 05/24/2001 11:34:11
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 03:59:29PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> I bought a pair of Philips DSS350 USB 'Digital Multimedia
> Speakers', as they have both a USB and standard audio input.
>
> They require a custom Windows driver (and the manual warns you
> never to connect them to any machine before loading that driver),
> and only produce garbled noise and much syslog unhappyness under
> NetBSD.
i think the lesson here is leave the wankerware USB /SPEAKERS/ for the wanker
winders users. honestly, what feature did these things have that a normal set
of speakers with a standard lo-gain input and a set of knobs does have?
-brian