> 
> That's all I did, basically - I looked at how the other drivers worked, and
> now I've got a soundcard driver (but it took me 2/3th of a year, and it doesn't

Is that the driver for the AZTech card, by any chance?

> all work yet, so maybe I don't know what I'm talking about.  I do have an
> excuse, though - I got married in the meantime).
> 

Married?  THAT took time from computing?

Maybe you shouldn't work on device driver, with that kind of lack of
dedication :-)

> I one considered writing a simple primer for writing device drivers.  Would
> anyone be interested in such a thing?

If you mail it to me, I can help you with it.  From the sound of the
feedback that I am getting, the FAQ is getting too cumbersome to be of
much use any more and needs to be replaced with a different form.
Primers would be an excellent format.