On Sun, 13 May 2001, powell molleti wrote:

 |--- Kingsly John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 |> you need alsa-driver , alsa-lib, and alsa-utils to
 |> get sound to work under
 |> alsa... I think PCQ only gave the  alsa-driver
 |> package!
 |
 |I think that alsa-driver package is sufficient for it.

 |The other packages are not really essential since you
 |can unmute your card with aumix, gmix etc if you build
 |the driver with oss compatability.

Yes I suppose if all you need is the basic functionality it should be
enough... but the alsamixer gives you a lot more control over your card
that the OSS mixer... for eg. I get 28controls for my via686a card and
over 130 for my SB Live! the OSS mixers only give basic functionality.

Kingsly


                .:: Kingsly John                ICQ 14787510 ::.
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            .:: Linux 2.4.3 #10 Mon Apr 23 22:43:11 IST 2001 i686 ::.
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           `:. Posted to the list on Mon May 14 13:06:21 IST 2001 .:'


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