--- Danny Tholen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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.
I'm aware that some things won't work if you switch to a stock kernel, period. We shouldn't break things we don't have to. > For some time there have been requests for switching > to ALSA for > some OSS cards, and I think not without reason. Make it a user-friendly option then. > > 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. Which has *always* worked extremely well in Mandrake. > I wonder > how many people use the stock kernel Anybody who wants a kernel that doesn't suck, crash, and take forever to do anything, including almost all of the users I support (a good number, newbies and experienced users alike). > >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. It was fine before all this happened. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com
