Nice to hear everyone's having success with ALSA - I'd like to join in, and
following Jon Pennington's kind advice downloaded the latest ALSA tar.bz
files to build it myself - I have a CMI8330 chip on the motherboard that
I've never been able to get going despite YAST2 seeing and despite alsaconf
apparently seeing it, and despite many efforts to unmute it.
The ALSA drivers aborted the make with a complaint like:
Error - enable multiplex thingy in kernel CONFIG_SOUND
Sorry I didn't get all of it. I have just popped in the 2.2.16 stock SuSE
deflt. kernel, using rpm - anyone tell me what this CONFIG_SOUND bit is, and
how to sort it?
I also am a bit confused with some of the ALSA messages - should I be taking
away the soundcore and soundlow modules by using rmmod, or am I mad?
Thanks all,
Fergus Wilde
Chetham's Library
Long Millgate
Manchester
M3 1SB
UK
Tel: +44 (0)161 834 7961
Fax: +44 (0)161 839 5797
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From: "Corvin Russell"
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
-- Corvin Russell
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