Re: [Alsa-user] shittiness

2004-01-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 00:44, Mark Knecht wrote: Matt, My 2 cents...I don't think it's quite that simple, or at least it doesn't seem that simple to me. This whole thread has been about comparing apples and oranges. In my opinion Alsa as a project has both made huge advances, and has a

Re: [Alsa-user] shittiness

2004-01-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 00:47, Noah Roberts wrote: Matthew Geddes wrote: On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 15:35, Noah Roberts wrote: I guess you could say its stable, but it sure doesn't seem very useable to me. I am quite good at getting things to work, even when they don't want to, but nothing I do

Re: [Alsa-user] shittiness

2004-01-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 01:05, Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 21:47, Noah Roberts wrote: Then I find it very interesting that the best answer so far has been to downgrade to 0.9.0rc6 and use the 2.4.x kernel tree. In fact I have seen no other responce to myself or anyone else that

Re: [Alsa-user] shittiness

2004-01-20 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So that you and I and the rest of us will test both the kernel and ALSA, and the kernel+ALSA, under various hardware conditions that will never happen until either is declared stable. Allow about 1/2 a year for both, and the combination of both,

Re: [Alsa-user] shittiness

2004-01-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 00:10, Gene Heskett wrote: SNIP 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) SNIP It will look like this for an 8233: 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 AC97 Audio Controller

Re: [Alsa-user] shittiness - please STFU and DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS

2004-01-20 Thread Sam Vilain
This is open source. Get with the program, there is no such thing as perfect advice, responsible parties or guarantees. 11. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING

Re: [Alsa-user] shittiness - please STFU and DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS

2004-01-20 Thread Greg Kedrovsky
Here are the 2 pennies from an end-user that is NOT a programmer, NOT a Unix/Linux guru. I'm simply a desktop user and weekend hacker, 37 years old. I use Linux exclusively for all desktop purposes, file/print server, etc. On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 03:28:53AM +1300, Sam Vilain wrote: Maybe you

Re: [Alsa-user] shittiness

2004-01-19 Thread Erik Steffl
Steve Conrad wrote: ... Compared to mature products like those with which I ordinarily work, alsa is an impenetrable thicket of trouble with few guideposts. because it is NOT a mature product. Both alsa and linux kernel are not mature as far as audio work goes - alsa only fairly recently

Re: [Alsa-user] shittiness

2004-01-19 Thread Noah Roberts
Erik Steffl wrote: so while you are pretty much right that alsa is not easy to configure, it's not easy to figure out what is supported for particular cards etc. it's all work in progress. Maybe it's not for you at this time (that's not elitist remark, alsa simply does not provide what you

Re: [Alsa-user] shittiness

2004-01-19 Thread Richard Kimber
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 14:12:45 -0800 Noah Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erik Steffl wrote: so while you are pretty much right that alsa is not easy to configure, it's not easy to figure out what is supported for particular cards etc. it's all work in progress. Maybe it's not for

Re: [Alsa-user] shittiness

2004-01-19 Thread markc
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 08:21 am, Richard Kimber wrote: particular cards etc. it's all work in progress. Maybe it's not for you at this time (that's not elitist remark, alsa simply does not provide what you want _at this time_) I wonder then, why does it have a 1.x version number? Only

Re: [Alsa-user] shittiness

2004-01-19 Thread Erik Steffl
Richard Kimber wrote: On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 14:12:45 -0800 Noah Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erik Steffl wrote: so while you are pretty much right that alsa is not easy to configure, it's not easy to figure out what is supported for particular cards etc. it's all work in progress. Maybe it's

Re: [Alsa-user] shittiness

2004-01-19 Thread Jason Clouse
On 2004-01-19 15:41:06 -0800 Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: alsa seems to be fairly stable now so it's time to build it into infrastructure (note that that's what the original poster complained about). and build infrastructure around it (so that it's easier to configure/use etc.)

Re: [Alsa-user] shittiness

2004-01-19 Thread Noah Roberts
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 08:21 am, Richard Kimber wrote: particular cards etc. it's all work in progress. Maybe it's not for you at this time (that's not elitist remark, alsa simply does not provide what you want _at this time_) I wonder then, why does it have a

Re: [Alsa-user] shittiness

2004-01-19 Thread Noah Roberts
Erik Steffl wrote: Richard Kimber wrote: On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 14:12:45 -0800 Noah Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erik Steffl wrote: so while you are pretty much right that alsa is not easy to configure, it's not easy to figure out what is supported for particular cards etc. it's all work in

Re: [Alsa-user] shittiness

2004-01-19 Thread Matthew Geddes
On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 15:35, Noah Roberts wrote: I guess you could say its stable, but it sure doesn't seem very useable to me. I am quite good at getting things to work, even when they don't want to, but nothing I do can make ALSA functional so just how useable is that? That doesn't

Re: [Alsa-user] shittiness

2004-01-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 21:17, Matthew Geddes wrote: On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 15:35, Noah Roberts wrote: I guess you could say its stable, but it sure doesn't seem very useable to me. I am quite good at getting things to work, even when they don't want to, but nothing I do can make ALSA

Re: [Alsa-user] shittiness

2004-01-19 Thread Noah Roberts
Matthew Geddes wrote: On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 15:35, Noah Roberts wrote: I guess you could say its stable, but it sure doesn't seem very useable to me. I am quite good at getting things to work, even when they don't want to, but nothing I do can make ALSA functional so just how useable is

Re: [Alsa-user] shittiness

2004-01-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 21:47, Noah Roberts wrote: Then I find it very interesting that the best answer so far has been to downgrade to 0.9.0rc6 and use the 2.4.x kernel tree. In fact I have seen no other responce to myself or anyone else that has had problems with this driver. OK, so I'm

Re:[Alsa-user] shittiness

2004-01-17 Thread Jason Clouse
On 2004-01-16 22:31:59 -0600 Stephen Stocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My thoughts on this subject are relatively straightforward and easy to express. What you've described below is already available. In Windoze. I more or less expected this elitist garbage from somebody. Do you run KDE or

Re:[Alsa-user] shittiness

2004-01-17 Thread Steve Conrad
I apoligize if my blunt remarks have caused anyone offense. This was not my intention. I would like to correct one misunderstanding regarding my frustration however. I am not a win32 user dipping my toe in the waters on linux. I am a system administrator accustomed to running apache, qmail,

Re: [Alsa-user] shittiness

2004-01-17 Thread Mark Constable
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 07:41 pm, Steve Conrad wrote: ... btw, I would not be at all averse to helping out with the reprehensible state of documentation for alsa. ANYONE can edit, correct or add to the growing store of quite useful info at http://alsa.opensrc.org. I hope some of the accumulated

[Alsa-user] shittiness

2004-01-16 Thread Steve Conrad
In the past I always kept away from sound on linux, because it sucked. Somewhat reluctantly, I gave it another stab last month and enjoyed a brief blaze of funtionality during which time I was able to sequence a number of my compositions with Rosegarden. Then suddenly, my speakers blew and

Re: [Alsa-user] shittiness

2004-01-16 Thread Florian Schmidt
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 14:59:23 -0800 Steve Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the past I always kept away from sound on linux, because it sucked. [snip] http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=AlsaComplaint Flo -- http://www.soundclick.com/bands/9/florianschmidt.htm

Re: [Alsa-user] shittiness

2004-01-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 16 January 2004 17:59, Steve Conrad wrote: In the past I always kept away from sound on linux, because it sucked. Somewhat reluctantly, I gave it another stab last month and enjoyed a brief blaze of funtionality during which time I was able to sequence a number of my compositions

Re:[Alsa-user] shittiness

2004-01-16 Thread Steve Conrad
It's not really about money. It's about time.And I'm not getting my time's worth out of this.The time invested to setup a second scratch machine to establish that theoriginal machine the fried card came from is in itself significant. The timespent scouring this list for any hint as to why

Re: [Alsa-user] shittiness

2004-01-16 Thread Greg Kedrovsky
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 12:59:22AM +0100, Florian Schmidt wrote: http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=AlsaComplaint My gosh! The speling is horrenduss in thet poast! -Greg :-) -- Mutt 1.4.1i on Slackware 9.1 Linux Curridabat, San Jose, Costa Rica

Re: [Alsa-user] shittiness

2004-01-16 Thread Daniel Kasak
Steve Conrad wrote: It's not really about money. It's about time. I have to wonder what exactly you have been doing with your time. I read the docs, grabbed an example config file, altered it to match my setup, and had my SB Live 5.1 working in under 20 minutes. Yeah the config file is a

Re: [Alsa-user] shittiness

2004-01-16 Thread Erik Steffl
Steve Conrad wrote: ... I don't buy into the PBS-begathon line of reasoning that because it's free I should be greatful for any limited functionality if offers. you don't have to be greatful. but offending people for providing something that you find no use for is not very nice. erik

Re:[Alsa-user] shittiness

2004-01-16 Thread Jason Clouse
The way Steve said what he said was rather rude and sounded whiny. But I *do* believe he's basically correct about a few things. Remember when some Microsoft sponsored benchmarks showed that Linux had some problems and a lot of zealots screamed because Microsoft was attacking Linux? Linus

Re:[Alsa-user] shittiness

2004-01-16 Thread Jason Clouse
I forgot one more thing that could be fixed: simplify. The strong point of Linux is that there are 1001 ways to do anything. And the weakness of Linux is that there are 1901 ways to do anything. End users like simplicity. They want power, it's true, but they don't want to have a lot of

Re: [Alsa-user] shittiness

2004-01-16 Thread Noah Roberts
Jason Clouse wrote: I forgot one more thing that could be fixed: simplify. The strong point of Linux is that there are 1001 ways to do anything. And the weakness of Linux is that there are 1901 ways to do anything. End users like simplicity. They want power, it's true, but they don't want

Re:[Alsa-user] shittiness

2004-01-16 Thread Stephen Stocker
Hi all, My thoughts on this subject are relatively straightforward and easy to express. What you've described below is already available. In Windoze. There's a reason I don't run M$'s junk, apart from its instability. I *enjoy* learning, doing, customizing, and just playing around