Peter Hugosson-Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I did notice that on my potato CD's there are some packages > called alsa* (Advanced Linux Soound Architecture?). For example, > alsa-base, alsaconf, alsautils. From the little I've read, they > seem to be backward compatible with OSS. > > Is this so, and in that case, how does alsa fit in with your > excellent instructions? Is alsa ready yet, or is it still very > much a 'work-in-progress'?
I have a SB Live! card and installed alsa 0.5.8b by myself, because the older version that was part of potato before the release didn't include support for this card. Don't know which version is part of the released potato now. I checked the DRIVERS file of alsa and saw some references to "Cirrus Logic / Crystal Semiconductors" drivers. Maybe this is your chip?! All I can say is that my sound system works fine. For the chips it supports I can recommend alsa. Installing it by yourself has the disadvantage, that all utilities that rely on the alsa-lib must (probably) be recompiled also, so check if your chip is supported by the version that comes with potato now! HTH Nils
