Even though I probably shouldn't go into this I will bite.
I admit that the alsa documentation is not very good. Although I consider myself rather good at
Linux (I use Slackware and compile a lot from source) I had a lot of trouble getting Alsa to work
properly on my system. In fact it took me several months to get my card working as I wanted it
to work. So that was from absolutely no driver support for my Terratec Aureon Space 7.1 to full
support. I am actually amazed by the fact that the drivers were so quickly written once the specs
were available.
I don't give up very soon and that is probably what got everything working in the end. If you want
something fixed then please ask for it nicely. I have done so numerous times and although I
didn't always get a quick response it was ultimately this that got me my working sound card.
I know it's not always easy hearing all the usual stuff like "RTFM" and "if you want something
fixed then code it yourself" and for normal users (read: Windows users) they only want
something that's called "setup.exe" and only require next, next, next, finish and maybe a reboot
and it all works. Unfortunately it doesn't work like that with Linux. But it's getting there. Alsa
will be included in future kernels (6.0 and above) and will improve even more from that point on.
Hopefully it will become the standard soon so we won't have to worry about OSS, Alsa or any
other sound system out there and just use Alsa.
And as for the documentation, I'm willing to put my experiences on paper to help people who have
the same soundcard to have an easy setup method. Even though I have gone through months
of troubles doesn't mean that everyone else has to. And I'm sure that other people can do the
same.
Bottom line: If something is not working, then if you cannot fix it yourself, please report what you
have done so far to get it working and what it is you are trying to do. Include error reports and
logs and if there are bugs they will get fixed. If there are configuration problems then I'm sure
that someone will be able to help but shouting that everything is crap is not the way to solve
things.
You motherfuckers won't help me, ALSA has shitty documentation, and there is NO godamned documentation on half of it. I hate ALSA and I don;t even use Linux any more because of this - you motherfuckers want to stick this shitty sound system in all distros and kill off OSS - wich has everything (even 5.1 audio) working by default. Thats right, you want easy 5.1 that requires NO configuring, use OSS. You think people would use windows if they had to hack 20 fuckkin lines of modules.conf? Fuck no.
And you need to fix your suppport page, I have emailed you all 10 or 12 times and none of the addresses are any good.
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