I too have had nothing but problems with the newest ALSA and it's integration with the 2.6.x kernels. After having used ALSA for years, I have gone back to OSS in the kernel. And I agree, the alsa-users list is very close to useless, even with the developers monitoring it (Takashi, Jaroslav and others). I think the kernel developers need to take a real hard look at the decision to deprecate OSS in support of ALSA. In my opinion, it's a very big mistake.
Now to your question, how to remove ALSA? What kernel are you running and how do you have sound configured in your kernel?
Rick Knight ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
P.S. If anyone here disagrees with my statements above, I have two sound cards that do not work correctly under ALSA. One of which works flawlessly under OSS (in the kernel sources, not commercial). Get either of them to work in ALSA and I'll change my opinion.
Casey Heshler wrote:
Anyone who has been following the "saga" of ALSA, and me, and my posts, will KNOW - I finally got ALSA running on my system, but, at a serious cost. I now have "introduced" noise/static with any sound recording I do - of which - this was not the issue with my "default" previous sound within a hdd installed Knoppix.
ALSA Subscriber E-Mail Group has been useless in getting any resolve for the noise - and all I know is that I can't record without getting this static/noise in my audio recordings now - which IS NOT a valid option.
Upon posting a querry on how to yank out ALSA - the suggestion to rip "alsa" from firing off in init.d - has turned into a system that has a 1.7GHz processor, that now runs sluggish, and extremely slow, mouse movement has become jumpy, instead of smooth moving, and if I wanted to put ALSA back into the init.d, it refuses to be added because it doesn't have a proper sort order ID.
Someone tell me, without having to re-install Knoppix, how I can take ALSA COMPLETELY OFF my system, and return to using arTs, since IT ACTUALLY WORKED without the noise/static problem. When my business deals with recording sound for my customers, a sound system like ALSA is NOT going to work if all it does is throw noise and static into a clean recording. Arts at least could do that, whereas, ALSA appears it can not...
I need to get my business back running, right now, I'm stuck with crummy ALSA, and noise, static recordings - of which - I never had this problem with the original sound that Knoppix had running before.
Thank you for any assistance, I thank you, my business thanks you, and my customers thank you,
Casey
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