On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 09:13:39AM -0800, Rick Knight spake thusly: > Casey, > > I too have had nothing but problems with the newest ALSA and it's > integration with the 2.6.x kernels. After having used ALSA for years, I > have gone back to OSS in the kernel. And I agree, the alsa-users list is > very close to useless, even with the developers monitoring it (Takashi, > Jaroslav and others). I think the kernel developers need to take a real > hard look at the decision to deprecate OSS in support of ALSA. In my > opinion, it's a very big mistake. > > Now to your question, how to remove ALSA? What kernel are you running > and how do you have sound configured in your kernel? > > Rick Knight > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > P.S. If anyone here disagrees with my statements above, I have two sound > cards that do not work correctly under ALSA. One of which works > flawlessly under OSS (in the kernel sources, not commercial). Get either > of them to work in ALSA and I'll change my opinion. While I personally have had more-or-less good luck with alsa (some oddities I've been having for years, I'm only just now starting to understand) I think the big problem is that there are so many different sound cards out there, and so many of them act differently. It's impossible for someone to test things when they don't have the hardware!
That said, it WOULD be nice if more developers were on this list to help out... Especially with so much changing with the move into the main kernel tree. That said, with the move into the kernel, some things get much simpler - installation doesn't require anything more than a standard kernel compile, which, while avoided by many people (unnecessarily, IMHO) is extremely well-documented all over the place. I guess I'll just keep lurking here, and hope that I can answer a few questions in the meantime. -- Jon-o Addleman ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
