On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 14:51 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > > > On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 14:13 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote: > >> AAgrhaheh. The claim from you was that it is easy for a user to update > >> the drivers for a new kernel, or install new drivers which had been > >> developed to a new kernel. Just three lines-- untar, configure and > >> make. I point out that it is NOT that easy. It is that easy only if > >> the user's system has been set up as a development environment. > > > > If you get a new soundcard and your current system does not support it > > there's a simple fix for non-developers: > > > > apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade > > Funny, my distributions (mandrake 10.1 and Mandriva 2006) have no such > commands. >
Um, you get my point, every distro has a package manager with a command that says "update packages to the latest version". Lee ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
