Hi All has anyone here read this article (and the related slashdot posting): http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=18901660 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/19/2122202&mode=nested&tid=106&tid=185&tid=190
I suppose this summarizes the problem that causes so many unhappy postings to this list (and likely others as well). Of course the reason is probably that M$ pays those companies to write drivers, or pays them to not write other drivers (for Linux). How can this be changed? In my own experience, this really is a big problem for Linux adoption. Because people buy pc hardware for other reasons than availability of linux drivers (well, most people anyway ;-). Actually I bought a terratec aurion space 7.1, because it was listed as being supported on the alsa site, but I had a world of problems getting it to work (only after getting the latest version at that time) and most applications still didn't work well then (using KDE, xmms, mplayer). Even with some tweaking and messing about with the alsamixer, I still have problems with it. (I haven't tried yet with mandrake 10.0, but I will soon...) I hope this can motivate more people to work on better sound support for Linux :-) Cheers Simon ------------------------------------------------------- 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
