On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Dave Nebinger wrote: > > > Another alternative is to install alsa. Granted you won't be using it > > > because > > > you don't have the hardware, but it might be enough to have a clean > > > revdep-rebuild. Based on equery results, it looks like all you'd need to > > > emerge is alsa-lib and alsa-headers, so you wouldn't be talking about a > > > great > > > deal of extra space... > > Wouldn't that entail some error messages at boot time? > > Not as long as you're not loading the modules. Lib & headers do not have any > runtime (service) components, sothey shouldn't have an impact. > > If they did, you would just need to remove them using rc-update. > > OK, I'll try that. Or perhaps I give Sun a try, although I find the hassle repulsive. After all, they're not charging for the product, so what's the point of making downloading such a pain? Stupid, if they ask me, which they don't, of course.
Thanks. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
