I have just spent an hour and a half installing and tweaking ALSA. It
works great! Thanks again for your help, Ben.
My experience has consistently been that the level of support given
the average user for open-source software is far higher than for *any*
proprietary software I have used, even in corporate
environments. Mutt, postfix, linux, freebsd, whenever I have asked a
question, it has been promptly and accurately answered. Perhaps one
day i can return the favour. Anyhow, for now, I just want to say
thanks to those who, through no compulsion, take it upon themselves to
help others here.
Although I generally buy the distributions on CD, because I think they
are exceptional value, and because I want to support the linux/bsd
community, the only linux software I ever *had* to buy was OSS. It
is also the software that gave me the most trouble, and now I finally
have had to uninstall it. Plus their support and documentation are
crummy. The crumminess of support seems to follow a normal curve --
at the open-source and high-paying corporate ends, it's good. In the
middle, Windows/Mac land, it's truly awful.
Best,
Corvin
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Corvin Russell