Re: sound card detection in base

2001-05-31 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Joey! You wrote: Regarding whether any package currently exists to help with sound card selection, no idea -- sounds like libdetect is the best chance. There's also sndconfig. It may be limited to ISAPNP cards, I am not sure from the package's description. No, it also detects pci

Re: sound card detection in base

2001-05-29 Thread Joey Hess
Randolph Chung wrote: AnXious doesn't have to go away, it can just stop sweating the X server issue. anXious has been removed from woody for some time already. i thought dexter already does everything that anXious did? dexter went away. :-) Anyway, I don't think it ever allowed selection

Re: sound card detection in base

2001-05-28 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Regarding Anthony Towns' attempt to get sound configuration to be an optional part of the installation process (I think it falls under base-config or tasksel or whatever, clearly), I applaud this effort. Even if it's only sucessful for 60% of users, I think it's worthwhile (so long as it is

Re: sound card detection in base

2001-05-28 Thread Joey Hess
Adam Di Carlo wrote: Regarding Anthony Towns' attempt to get sound configuration to be an optional part of the installation process (I think it falls under base-config or tasksel or whatever, clearly), I applaud this effort. Mind you, obviously, this should not be triggered unless the user

Re: sound card detection in base

2001-05-28 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 07:26:10PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: anXious doesn't exist in woody AFAICT. I think it's now handled by xserver-xfree86 postinst or debconf or whatever it is that runs there. Hmm, this is a bit disturbing since base-config still calls anXious. Well, only if it

Re: sound card detection in base

2001-05-28 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adam Di Carlo wrote: anXious doesn't exist in woody AFAICT. I think it's now handled by xserver-xfree86 postinst or debconf or whatever it is that runs there. Hmm, this is a bit disturbing since base-config still calls anXious. Well, only if it

Re: sound card detection in base

2001-05-27 Thread Filip Van Raemdonck
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 09:45:42PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: konstantin cherkasoff wrote: Noway. The _base_ must be realy base. I don't want clean my system after install. wvdial, ppp, pcmcia-cs, pcmcia-modules, base-config, console-data, console-tools Only a few of the things I

Re: sound card detection in base

2001-05-25 Thread Joey Hess
konstantin cherkasoff wrote: Hi AT Is there a package that helps configure your sound card in Debian yet? Are AT any of sndconfig, alsaconf, or libdetect usable? AT AT If so (and assuming it works), I'd like to add it to the base system. If AT not, is there anyone clueful enough and with

Re: sound card detection in base

2001-05-25 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 08:14:12PM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 10:57:44PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Is there a package that helps configure your sound card in Debian yet? Are any of sndconfig, alsaconf, or libdetect usable? AFAIU, 'base system' is composed of

Re: sound card detection in base

2001-05-25 Thread David Whedon
Is there any software for detecting sound cards in Debian that's effective? I recently used libdetect to detect my sound card, it found it, though it got the module wrong, the name was close enough that I found the right one. Progeny uses libdetect for discover, an initrd based hardware