> [OT] A note about ALSA.
> ALSA disappionted me greatly. A week ago I moved my home
> server to a new box, intel i810 mainboard video,audio
> integrated. When trying to get the integrated crappy AC97
> to work ALSA produced terrible noise. The sound card was
> TOTALLY unusable. After moving back to OSS, card runs
> smoothly, no noise, nothing!
Maybe ALSA cannot handle this card, maybe it was simply a
misconfiguration.
When running 2.6 kernels, I'd like to recommend to disable all
OSS stuff in the kernel before using ALSA.
Then a first try can be to run alsaconf.
OTOH, on a server I guess it's really OK to use OSS if it
works.
Best regards
ce
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