On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 14:15, Tom Whiting wrote: > On Thursday 15 August 2002 07:35 am, Wouter Lagerweij wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 14:27, Tom Whiting wrote: > > > > <... deleted angry comments ...> > > > > Erm.. You *do* know that cooker is the experimental branch of mandrake, > > don't you? If you want things to 'just work' it would be better to stick > > to the release version. At the moment the latest release is Mandrake 8.2 > > > > Wouter > Actually, I know VERY well that this is an "experimental" branch of mandrake. > VERY well indeed. > > The problem is that this is a "BETA" release. There's bound to be issues, YES. > however, when it comes down to it, this doesn't even qualify as beta, or > pre-beta. This qualifies as the "I got a bug up my tail about something and > want to see if it'll work" syndrome that I've seen so many times. > > The fact of the matter is this: > A> OSS works. It HAS worked in the past. Hell, were I to download the ISO's > again and rebuild the server, it WOULD work again. Unfortunately I no longer > have the cd's to do so, thanks to the individual that decided to make those > specific ISO's so large they are incompatible with quite a few older drives.
<snip more testosterone overdosing> You've just filled yet another post with pointless bitching without giving the most basic information on the actual setup that's causing this problem (except for saying 'ensoniq / CL soundcards', which is hardly helpful given how many of the things there are). ALSA and OSS aren't monolithic, they're big collections of drivers; as someone has said, MDK still uses OSS drivers by default for almost all cards, it only uses ALSA for cards a) which have no OSS drivers or b) for which the OSS drivers have had bug reports submitted against them. Instead of bitching, can you please explain why this isn't a sensible policy, and explain the actual problem you're having in a useful and non-confrontational manner? It would be far more productive. FWIW, both my sound cards - the inbuilt Yamaha chip in this notebook and the SB16 PCI in the desktop - default to OSS drivers under Mandrake, both 8.2 and Cooker... -- adamw
