Hi, On Fri, Sep 04, misc.word.corp wrote:
I have yet to receive my copy of 5.3, but I'm in shock about the apparent decision to deemphasize sound modules in favor of commercial OSS drivers.
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Is there any hope for this situation?
-- Glenn -- -o) Hubert Mantel /\\ _\_v
Yes. One of the biggest problems with the current free sound driver is that it's a monolithic monster with compiled-in configuration which makes it almost impossible to provide a module that runs on almost any hardware. Alan Cox has done a great job in modularizing the sound driver. The changes have even been backported for 2.0.x (see <A HREF="ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/alan/Sound"><A HREF="ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/alan/Sound</A">ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/alan/Sound</A</A>>), but at the current point no distributor would like to make such a massive change to their kernels. So if you are interested in this, just download the newest version from the directory (currently 2.0.34-modular-3.patch.gz, but applies with a non-important reject to 2.0.35 as well) and play with it. Alan almost planned to include the new driver with 2.0.36, but then reconsidered that the change is too massive. So things will become better when 2.2.0 comes out. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e