Re: which sound configuration utility?
On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 04:53:35AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: Has anyone seen RedHat's HW detection in action? It's real cool! I swapped some HW on a system running RedHat and rebooted the system. It automagicly detected the new HW (video card) during kernel boot and installed the required drivers all by itself! (Just like windows!) This has to be backported into Debian! its just a program called `kudzu' and i disabled it when i had a redhat system ;-) i hate automatic crap like that. (but that's just me) and `backported' is the wrong term here, that would imply porting a already existing utility back to an older version of the OS, in this case there is not even any `porting' necessary since its the same OS, just get and compile kudzu toss in an initscript and you got it. (i presume all it does is muck around with kernel modules and breaks if you don't compile every single bloody thing in the kernel config as a module. I didn't look much into it, all i know is it made the startup take only a bazillion times longer and was going to screw with my system configuration without asking/telling me, which is a death penelty offence on my computers ;-) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ attachment: Navidad.exe
Re: which sound configuration utility?
Alex Kwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) can I use the sndconfig of Red Hat on potato? I had a go at repackaging sndconfig for Debian recently, and found that it depends rather heavily on kudzu (Red Hat's hardware configuration system). I came to the conclusion that it would take either a major rewrite of sndconfig or a reworking of Debian's hardware detection system to get sndconfig to work on Debian. Corel Linux (http://linux.corel.com/) use an older version of sndconfig which predates kudzu, so if you download their package (I understand Corel packages can be installed on a Debian system without too much pain) you might be able to get that to work. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: which sound configuration utility?
I had a go at repackaging sndconfig for Debian recently, and found that it depends rather heavily on kudzu (Red Hat's hardware configuration system). I came to the conclusion that it would take either a major rewrite of sndconfig or a reworking of Debian's hardware detection system to get sndconfig to work on Debian. Has anyone seen RedHat's HW detection in action? It's real cool! I swapped some HW on a system running RedHat and rebooted the system. It automagicly detected the new HW (video card) during kernel boot and installed the required drivers all by itself! (Just like windows!) This has to be backported into Debian! = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online and get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: which sound configuration utility?
On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 04:53:35AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: Has anyone seen RedHat's HW detection in action? It's real cool! I swapped some HW on a system running RedHat and rebooted the system. It automagicly detected the new HW (video card) during kernel boot and installed the required drivers all by itself! (Just like windows!) This has to be backported into Debian! its just a program called `kudzu' and i disabled it when i had a redhat system ;-) i hate automatic crap like that. (but that's just me) and `backported' is the wrong term here, that would imply porting a already existing utility back to an older version of the OS, in this case there is not even any `porting' necessary since its the same OS, just get and compile kudzu toss in an initscript and you got it. (i presume all it does is muck around with kernel modules and breaks if you don't compile every single bloody thing in the kernel config as a module. I didn't look much into it, all i know is it made the startup take only a bazillion times longer and was going to screw with my system configuration without asking/telling me, which is a death penelty offence on my computers ;-) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp7LjJD4ze1J.pgp Description: PGP signature
which sound configuration utility?
Hi! 1) I am looking for a sound configuration utility (like sndconfig on Red Hat), which is it? 2) can I use the sndconfig of Red Hat on potato? thanks!
Re: which sound configuration utility?
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Alex Kwan wrote: Hi! 1) I am looking for a sound configuration utility (like sndconfig on Red Hat), which is it? 2) can I use the sndconfig of Red Hat on potato? thanks! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Hi Alex! To configure sound in debian I always use alsaconf. You can get alsaconf by writing apt-get install alsa-modules or something similar. I do not know of any debian specific soundcard configurator, but I suspect that there are some (or at least in development). /nisse
Re: which sound configuration utility?
On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 Alex Kwan wrote: 1) I am looking for a sound configuration utility (like sndconfig on Red Hat), which is it? i don't know wether debian has such a tool, but, perhaps you are interested in the ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) driver (http://www.alsa-project.org). there's a tool called 'alsaconf', which offers auto-detection of sound cards. then it's able to write the correct lines to /etc/modules.conf. btw: ALSA is nice and easy to install, so you don't really need such a tool. ;) but, first check wether your sound card is supported... 2) can I use the sndconfig of Red Hat on potato? i don't know what this sndconfig does. -moritz -- #Moritz Schulte - [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Registered LINUX-User #13308 # # PGP-Key available, encrypted Mail is welcome # # Home: http://hp9001.fh-bielefeld.de/~moritz/ #
