-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 16 September 2002 1:41 pm, Karolina Lindqvist wrote: > I think ALSA is a small problem with KDE on debian. > > In KDE 2.2 it was possible to choose different packages for ALSA support > or not ALSA support, but that was removed in KDE 3 packaging. ARTS can be > built without ALSA support, with ALSA 0.5 support or with ALSA 0.9 support. > kdemultimedia does not build cleanly with ALSA 0.9, since support for it is > simply missing. It only works with ALSA 0.5. > > Some newer interesting audio applications require ALSA 0.9. But > unfortunately, ALSA is not backward compatible, so if there is ALSA 0.9 in > the kernel, ALSA 0.5 applications won't work. (Maybe some will) > > So what should KDE be built with? > > One version for all, with two versions ALSA and not ALSA, or with three > versions, not ALSA, ALSA 0.5 and ALSA 0.9? > > I built KDE 3.1 beta with ALSA 0.9 support, but I am not sure that is good > for everyone. You can also not cleanly rebuild kdemultimedia with ALSA 0.9 > > Is there maybe some policy, like "debian version XXX has ALSA X.Y as > standard" or something like that? > > -- Karolina
Never seen any problems here. I use alsa 0.9. What sort of problems do you see with kdemultimedia? - -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9hdmSYsCKa6wDNXYRApK4AJ0ao+ZWDCZVjefAca4BXhs0vUGYywCfdzBN iS6V0bpnkuXI0V2WJyfInG4= =tg9o -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
