> To believe that the box you hold with square holes is sufficient to > satisfy all other people's shapes spherical and elliptical is just not > what Gentoo is about.
Nor do I believe that no one should use alsa drivers outside of the kernel; obviously there is full support for using a bleeding edge driver when it is needed. I happen to be running nitro patches on my 2.6.10 kernel so I'm already using the bleeding edge alsa driver, and I know many other folks may want and/or need a different alsa driver; that wasn't the point I was trying to make. Neither party said that they were trying to emerge gnome so they could use a bleeding edge sound application, they just indicated that gnome was failing, the failure was due to a lack of alsa-driver, and they could not figure out how to resolve the problem. Even if they were going to be using a cutting edge sound app, I'd still suggest to them that they use the built in alsa driver to get their core components installed (i.e. gnome), then upgrade to a new alsa driver when they're ready to install that new wizbang sound app. Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
