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On January 6, 2001 07:27 pm, Purple Shirt wrote:
until 6.4 rolled around and with it yast2 and the fact that SuSe started trying to include sound setup with its distro. From there on sound setup may have become easy for people who like yast2 and think it does a good job. For me yast2 makes sound almost impossible to enjoy. I got opl3sa2 card.
The problem is that if I use the alsa.rpm and alsadev.rpm and use yast2 to set sound up it gives me sound but loops forever. it's not sound its noise. So there I tell myself that I just don't use yast2 and compile my sound like in the past myself.
The problem is ever since suse created this automatic sound setup its impossible to compile alsa yourself. I constantly get this stupid error:
amixer: Mixer 0/0 open error: Invalid argument
That doesn't sound like a compiler error. I haven't looked at yast2 in awhile but last time I did all the program did was call the alsa utilities. There is nothing stopping you from manually running alsactl. Or from hand editing the asound.conf file.
I wish we all go back to good old text file setup and none of this yast2 junk.
So don't use it. Edit the file yourself. Alsa compiles just fine here. At least when I got the kernel fixed. Just grab the tarball and do it. Nothing stopped me. All the old tools are still there. Nobody forces you to use rpm or cute programs like yast2. Nick