Hallo, Thomas Charbonnel hat gesagt: // Thomas Charbonnel wrote: > I recently tested two audio/multimedia oriented linux live cds (namely > Dyne:bolic 1.2 and Agnula LAM edition), and was rather disapointed to > see that alsa was only partly shipped on those distributions. The > alsa-tools and alsa-firmware packages were lacking, which renders some > cards useless (e.g. the RME hdsp Multiface and Digiface cards need to be > fed with a binary configuration data file found in alsa-firmware, using > hdsploader, to be found in alsa-tools - without this operation those > cards will simply not work).
Also then the Tascam (and maybe some other) USB boxes won't work, as they also need a firmware plus loader. But then, I think, both packages to my knowledge ("apt-cache search ...") aren't available in mainstream Debian as well. Maybe some kind of wishlist bug could be filed to Debian? But I suppose this was already discussed amongst the Debian-Alsa Psychos (yes, they call themselves that) so they might have a reason for not including the packages. I'd like to know it, though. At least for the Live-CDs the packages would make an important addition, as you cannot easily compile them on your own there. Ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__