On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 02:09:18PM -0700, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote:
> > David Walluck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > This ALSA stuff is getting out of hand... even KDE needs ALSA
> > > now!! ARGHHH!
> >
> > whats wrong with this ?
Two things: #1 I don't have ALSA. I couldn't even use it if I wanted
to. #2 Something in KDE the other day was trying to use ALSA when I don't
even have it -- of course this program will fail to work. Unfortunately,
it seems that things compiled with ALSA support *need* ALSA to run, which
is a mistake for those of us who don't have ALSA support for our cards. It
stupidly cannot fall back to OSS (or try OSS first!) if ALSA fails. This
may have been the program's fault. I don't know.
Someone also mentioned the other day that if you paid good money for OSS
COmmercial, you wouldn't want ALSA messing with your drivers...
>
> At least for my soundcard (Soundblaster PCI 64V) ALSA is not needed. The
> kernel sounddrivers are good enough.
>
> Alexander Skwar
>
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Sincerely,
David Walluck
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