Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-14 Thread John Haxby
Sergei Steshenko wrote: On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 20:50:27 -0400 Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many developers would get bored and move on to hack another OS with a faster development cycle. - maybe. [...] Will I cry ? No. I could right something much longer, but Yeah, right

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-14 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 21:41 -0700, Bill Unruh wrote: On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: Not really necessary. The kernel module utilities have a provision that enables you to override the original kernel modules. Just put your newer kernel modules somewhere in:

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-14 Thread Bill Unruh
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Sergei Steshenko wrote: On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 20:50:27 -0400 Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 03:07 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: One of really nice human features is the ability to understand other person's reason. I want to be able to install

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-14 Thread Sergei Steshenko
You have just lost all crdibility for me. Go ahead an run Helenos if that is what you want. Noone is forcing you to use Linux. Presumably you do so because you find the benefits outweigh the costs. Now you are saying that all other benefits should be sacrificed on the altar of your ease in

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-13 Thread Claude Yu
lists.sourceforge.net; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 1:28 PM Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:21:41 -0700 (PDT) Bill Unruh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Claude Yu wrote: Hi Clem

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-13 Thread Dominique Michel
] To: Bill Unruh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Claude Yu [EMAIL PROTECTED]; alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 1:28 PM Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:21:41 -0700 (PDT

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-13 Thread Bill Unruh
@lists.sourceforge.net; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 1:28 PM Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:21:41 -0700 (PDT) Bill Unruh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Claude Yu wrote: Hi Clemens, After

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 11:09 +0200, Dominique Michel wrote: ??? It is no snd-riptide driver in alsa. I don't know how mandrake can found a driver that doesn't exist. I am affraid at the only thing you can do is to buy a new soundcard if you want to have sound in linux with your box. Look

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-13 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:59:51 -0400 Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 11:09 +0200, Dominique Michel wrote: ??? It is no snd-riptide driver in alsa. I don't know how mandrake can found a driver that doesn't exist. I am affraid at the only thing you can do is to buy

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 19:34 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: Again, try a live-cd distribution first - it's much simpler than compiling ALSA and probably kernel. I think the latest Knoppix should be good - apparently the Riptide driver is rather new, and it will not be in the kernel until

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-13 Thread Lee Revell
Sergei, Your mail server keep blocking me, can you fix it? [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 194.67.23.20 does not like recipient. Remote host said: 550 Access from ip address 216.158.38.3 blocked. Visit http://win.mail.ru/cgi-bin/support_bl?ip=216.158.38.3 Giving up on 194.67.23.20. Lee

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-13 Thread Bill Unruh
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Sergei Steshenko wrote: On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:59:51 -0400 Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 11:09 +0200, Dominique Michel wrote: ??? It is no snd-riptide driver in alsa. I don't know how mandrake can found a driver that doesn't exist. I am

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-13 Thread Bill Unruh
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Lee Revell wrote: On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 19:34 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: Again, try a live-cd distribution first - it's much simpler than compiling ALSA and probably kernel. I think the latest Knoppix should be good - apparently the Riptide driver is rather new,

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 10:07 -0700, Bill Unruh wrote: On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Lee Revell wrote: On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 19:34 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: Again, try a live-cd distribution first - it's much simpler than compiling ALSA and probably kernel. I think the latest Knoppix

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-13 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:52:28 -0400 Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sergei, Your mail server keep blocking me, can you fix it? [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 194.67.23.20 does not like recipient. Remote host said: 550 Access from ip address 216.158.38.3 blocked. Visit

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-13 Thread John Haxby
Lee Revell wrote: I think it's a problem that FC5 does not have an RPM package containing these modules. I think it's a question of cost of maintenance. FC5 is currently on 2.6.12.20 (although you might be forgiven fo thinking is actually 2.6.16-1.2133_FC5). /proc/asound says that we

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-13 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 20:39:08 +0100 John Haxby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lee Revell wrote: I think it's a problem that FC5 does not have an RPM package containing these modules. I think it's a question of cost of maintenance. FC5 is currently on 2.6.12.20 (although you might be

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-13 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 20:39 +0100, John Haxby wrote: Lee Revell wrote: I think it's a problem that FC5 does not have an RPM package containing these modules. I think it's a question of cost of maintenance. FC5 is currently on 2.6.12.20 (although you might be forgiven fo thinking is

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 20:39 +0100, John Haxby wrote: On the other hand, perhaps someone would volunteer to de-couple the ALSA modules from the rest of the kernel in the kernel build so that the ALSA modules can be updated and then we'll get to be able to install newer versions of ALSA without

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 22:49 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: You are aiming too low. The true answers are: 1) drivers running in user space; Agreed. This would help many things. For example it would solve the binary only driver issue - vendors that feel the need to develop closed drivers

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-13 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 16:05:40 -0400 Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 22:49 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: You are aiming too low. The true answers are: 1) drivers running in user space; Agreed. This would help many things. For example it would solve the

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-13 Thread Lee Revell
I'm not going to participate in another binary driver flamewar. Everything interesting that can be said about the issue has been said. You're entitled to your opinion. On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 23:40 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 16:05:40 -0400 Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-13 Thread Bill Unruh
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Lee Revell wrote: On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 10:07 -0700, Bill Unruh wrote: On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Lee Revell wrote: On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 19:34 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: Again, try a live-cd distribution first - it's much simpler than compiling ALSA and probably kernel.

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-13 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 16:42:42 -0400 Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not going to participate in another binary driver flamewar. Everything interesting that can be said about the issue has been said. You're entitled to your opinion. On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 23:40 +0300, Sergei Steshenko

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-13 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:59:36 -0700 (PDT) Bill Unruh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem as always id dependencies. Have the modules really beendesinged to work on their own, or do they suddenly have weird dependencies to say alsalib. Again and again, fully self-contained binary driver is

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-13 Thread Bill Unruh
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, John Haxby wrote: Lee Revell wrote: I think it's a problem that FC5 does not have an RPM package containing these modules. . On the other hand, perhaps someone would volunteer to de-couple the ALSA modules from the rest of the kernel in the kernel build so that the

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-13 Thread Bill Unruh
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Sergei Steshenko wrote: On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 16:05:40 -0400 Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 22:49 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: You are aiming too low. The true answers are: 1) drivers running in user space; Agreed. This would help many

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-13 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:19:07 -0700 (PDT) Bill Unruh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course it can load that way. That is modules are. The problem is that modules are so intimatley connected with the kernel that a module for kernel A in general does not have the right entry points for Kernel B.

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-13 Thread John Haxby
Bill Unruh wrote: The philosophy of Mandrake and Redhat has been that updates are for security concerns, not for upgrading the system. Upgrades are handled by new releases and that trying to make sure that a particular upgrade works together with 3 or 4 different distros would be a logistic

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-13 Thread John Haxby
Bill Unruh wrote: On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, John Haxby wrote: On the other hand, perhaps someone would volunteer to de-couple the ALSA modules from the rest of the kernel in the kernel build so that the ALSA modules can be updated and then we'll get to be able to install newer versions of ALSA

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 23:05 +0100, John Haxby wrote: What I was suggesting was pulling out the alsa modules into a separate kernel-alsa binary RPM, compiled from the same sources as everything else. It would then be possible to produce, say, a kernel-alsa-1.0.11 src.rpm that will produce

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 00:28 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:19:07 -0700 (PDT) Bill Unruh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course it can load that way. That is modules are. The problem is that modules are so intimatley connected with the kernel that a module for kernel A

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-13 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 19:00:09 -0400 Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You do realize that freezing the ABI would amount to freezing kernel development, due to the commitment not to break old binary drivers? Your scheme would have made it impossible to implement suspend/resume or

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 02:39 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: No, I don't. I realize that there were Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP. Or Solaris 4..10. Or whatever. That is, from time to time binary interface specs get updated as necessary. Now,

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-13 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 03:07 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 19:43:42 -0400 Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 02:39 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: No, I don't. I realize that there were Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000,

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-13 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 23:08 +0100, John Haxby wrote: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: Not really necessary. The kernel module utilities have a provision that enables you to override the original kernel modules. Just put your newer kernel modules somewhere in: /lib/modules/`uname

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 03:07 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: One of really nice human features is the ability to understand other person's reason. I want to be able to install updated (ALSA or any Linux for that matter) driver with no more clicks/keystrokes I need under Windows - however

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-13 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 20:50:27 -0400 Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 03:07 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: One of really nice human features is the ability to understand other person's reason. I want to be able to install updated (ALSA or any Linux for that

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-13 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 19:43:42 -0400 Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 02:39 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: No, I don't. I realize that there were Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP. Or Solaris 4..10. Or whatever. That is,

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-13 Thread Bill Unruh
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: Not really necessary. The kernel module utilities have a provision that enables you to override the original kernel modules. Just put your newer kernel modules somewhere in: /lib/modules/`uname -r`/updates/ do a depmod -a and those

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-13 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 21:41:04 -0700 (PDT) Bill Unruh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: Not really necessary. The kernel module utilities have a provision that enables you to override the original kernel modules. Just put your newer kernel

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-12 Thread Bill Unruh
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Claude Yu wrote: Hi Clemens, After installing FC-5 distribtion and booting up in dual boot mode gracefully. It is great. however, something has made me feel so outrageous similarly to the fate of installing Mandrake 2006 -- No sound! I hope that you did not change

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-12 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:21:41 -0700 (PDT) Bill Unruh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Claude Yu wrote: Hi Clemens, After installing FC-5 distribtion and booting up in dual boot mode gracefully. It is great. however, something has made me feel so outrageous similarly to

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-12 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 20:21 -0700, Bill Unruh wrote: Since Windows runs the soundcard using drivers supplied by the manufacturer, write the manufacturer to ask why they did not write a module for Linux. This is no solution. We need the vendors to test the ALSA code and contribute patches.