Gustin Johnson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Susan Dridi wrote: > <snip> >> It would be great if all of this were just built in. >> > Since you were able to modprobe the module, it is built in.
I beg to differ. Sound did not work "out of the box" for my sound card. I had to figure out how to fix it. I think that sound should "just work" for a music distro. Just my opinion. > You can > have this done for you automatically with /etc/modules or > /etc/modprobe.d Unfortunately, I'm not a systems programmer, not all that familiar with unices and wonder if others who just want to make some music and not tinker with their computers would know how to do that. > Having said that there are good reasons why the default > is the way it is. Perhaps, but there should be some kind of question when the system is being installed about whether you have any firewire devices, and then let the installer add the appropriate modules and packages. > For Quentin I thnk the problem is that the module does not exist. I > don't really follow ieee1394 that closely (I avoid it actually) but I > think that the whole firewire stack is undergoing a rewrite. > >> Meanwhile, I haven't installed the beta version yet, based on reports >> like this about firewire and freebob or ffado not working. > > The beta is just that, a beta. For some of us it works well, but there > is a lot of work still to do. The 2.6.29 kernel is not officially > stable yet either. Right, I understand that and the only reason I wrote is that I think this problem could be a deal breaker for users with firewire sound cards. I keep the testing sources in apt, and would be glad to report on a beta installation from the point of view of a regular user who is handy with Google but not a systems girl. Once firewire is working, that is:) Take care, -Susan _______________________________________________ 64studio-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-devel
