Frans Pop wrote: > hw-detect could support basic sound card detection and automatically > schedule at least package linux-sound-base for installation. > > This package allows to select between ALSA and OSS and takes care of > blacklisting the other. I am told it has sane defaults, but that should > probably be checked.
I took a look at linux-sound-base. Its use of debconf seems appropriate. Both priority and preseeding are good. The only problem I see is that its behavior is to disable all oss or all alsa modules, with the effect that as long as their are some sound cards that are only supported by alsa or only by oss, either default will be wrong for someone and cause the system to not support their sound card. Of course this is an improvement over the current behavior of sometimes loading both drivers and crashing the system. And I suppose alsa supports most cards now. Also if we switched to discover2 that would not be a problem since it only disables one in a pair in case of ties with discover2. > One step further would be to install alsa-base, but I'm not sure if for > Debian that should be done without asking the user. IMHO if we're going to enable alsa by default, we should include full support for it, although only including alsa-base in the desktop task might be an alternative. -- see shy jo
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