-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 12 August 2002 21:34, David Walser wrote: > Please take the Reply-To: out of your mail client. done.
> If someone switches to a stock kernel it won't work. This is a bad argument IMO. There are dozens of modules that are not in the stock kernel. We cannot possibly make everybody happy. For some time there have been requests for switching to ALSA for some OSS cards, and I think not without reason. > But the stock one works. So? ALSA works as well. And stock kernel does not support midi sound. Which I cannot clasify as 'works'. > It's not in 2.4. It's in Mandrake's kernel because it > supports some cards OSS doesn't. I do not think that is the only reason. It is simply the better system. > No, if you want to use ALSA when OSS works you can > modify modules.conf. Stock kernels should work out of > the box. Well, it does work. Only you need to recompile the ALSA modules as well. Perhaps they can be separately packaged. As I see it, your argument only boils down to using the stock kernel. I wonder how many people use the stock kernel, and consider it a problem to add 1 line to let the OSS module work. While you need to modify many lines to make ALSA work. >Alternatively there could be (in expert mode > only) a way to select OSS or ALSA (like > CUPS/Gimp-Print in printerdrake, OSS should be > default). As I suggested. Only ALSA should be the default (ha, you had that one coming). Feel free to help modifying harddrake. Danny - -- During the voyage of life, remember to keep an eye out for a fair wind; batten down during a storm; hail all passing ships; and fly your colors proudly. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9WBJ0aeiN+EU2vEIRAjKCAKCZfBtg8h5Oyu1RR1fFzx6s+nzURwCePAlw W3ipVE1FftMINvJfiuxwXaA= =lYGP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
