-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 11 September 2002 16:22, David Walluck wrote:
> In fact, the installer has a bug. It does not let you choose your sound That is a missing feature, not a bug. Before draksound there was not the ability to switch. now there is, maybe next installer will have it 2. > driver and picks ALSA by default, but with ALSA, the mixer doesn't even > work, let alone surround sound. What doesn't work in what mixer? Real surround is better in ALSA than in OSS. You get 4 speakers working by muting the very last mixer slider in alsamixergui (or alsamixer). Play a bit with the mixer to find out how it works. I agree, the mixer is shitty to configure, and incomprehensable, but it works. > Yet, if you run draksound after the > install it seems to default to OSS. No, draksound is a bit bugged and isn't sure about what is the default. (it depends on what is currently selected). > > If emu10k1-tools is in contribs, it really should be moved over to main, > even if Mandrake is only going to officially support ALSA, I like to at > least see support for the OSS driver in the startup scripts. Why should it be in main? Danny - -- Living in the complex world of the future is somewhat like having bees live in your head. But, there they are. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9f477aeiN+EU2vEIRAn9vAJ9bxg2VNuCeEwLonGJv09uIbsbgLACghTeY ePEk1pY8+Q5Jso/9Wnmm6BU= =AI0p -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
