So? Are there any good documentation available somewhere? I've been trying to figure this whole issue out myself for a while but then gave up and moved to more important stuff for a while, as I'm generally fairly new to Linux and have a lot of other things to learn as well.
Generally speaking I'm also confused a lot by the fact that I've found no indication anywhere why there are 3 different version numbers available, what's the advantage of one over another, how exactly to set it up etc... I've also found the two different alsa script in /etc/init.d confusing, and also had problems with modconf complaining about aliases etc. I also had some interesting kernel messages claiming that I'll taint my kernel by inserting non-cerified modules, which is not too promissing, whatever it means... And while we're at it, is there somewhere some good documentation to help people decide whst is the best way to go for a certain system/soundcard/purpose. What's the difference / advantage between ALSA and OSS? Some Gnome stuff seems to be adamant on using Esound/esd. That seems to be conflicting with ALSA, or is it? And I could go on like that... I very much try not to ask too obvious questions, so that I don't annoy people. And I've been reading HOWTOs, man pages etc. for the last 6 month, but for some questions it seems it is very difficult to find answers ... Any thoughts are greatly appreciated! best regards, Balazs On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 12:48:28PM -0500, Noah Meyerhans wrote: >On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 07:14:39PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: >> >> I can roll my own alsa setup, thankyouverymuch. (In fact, that's >> what I had working before this upgrade.) Should I purge all this >> alsa crap and go back to the Good Old Way? I'd rather keep Debian >> configuration & startup files & keep package database happy. Is >> there any fine manual I can read to find out how to do that? > >YES! I have been doing this for many months, having heard similar >horror stories to yours. I haven't run in to any problems with >conflicts with Debian packages or unmet dependencies or anything as a >result of bypassing the Debian package database in this manner. > >noah > >-- > _______________________________________________________ >| Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ >| PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
