--- 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.

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