The ALSA maintenance team has just released alsa-driver version 1.0.8+1.0.9rc2-1 to experimental. This includes a new binary package linux-sound-base which takes over from alsa-base the job of blacklisting OSS modules when installed. The capability has been added to it to blacklist ALSA modules instead, or to blacklist neither OSS nor ALSA. The choice among these is controlled via debconf; thus the adminstrator should run
dpkg-reconfigure linux-sound-base to change sound systems. The default selection is ALSA because the package is pulled in via alsa-base's Depends. We think that it would be appropriate for 2.6 kernel-image packages also to Depend on linux-sound-base. ALSA is already considered to be the default for 2.6, so the addition of the linux-sound-base package should not break anything. The benefit afforded by the package is that it prevents unholy mixtures of OSS and ALSA modules from being loaded (a problem which is generating lots of bug reports). 2.4 kernel-image packages, on the other hand, should not Depend on linux-sound-base. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]