Josselin Mouette wrote: > When you install an alsa-modules package for the 2.4 kernel, you get > alsa-base per the dependencies. However, when you install sarge with a > 2.6 kernel, alsa-base doesn't end up being installed. The result is that > for most sound cards, both OSS and ALSA modules end up installed, > resulting in various and random problems. To avoid that, shouldn't the > kernel-image packages for 2.6 depend on alsa-base?
No, because the kernel does not depend on alsa to function. Also, the problem you describe has nothing to do with the kernel's dependency on alsa-base and everything to do with the mismash of several hardware detection systems that randomly choose to load one or the other module for a given pci id. -- see shy jo
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