Ian, Can you give us some tips on what you did to ALSA? I'm fighting that right now with my MythTV box.
Ben On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:07:14AM -0600, Ian Monroe wrote: > Just downloaded. As was pointed out on Slashdot, 2.6 kernel and Lord of > the Rings on the same day (yes, its good and you should see it). And for > us, the end of the semester. What could make the day better. Guess it > would have to be World Peace or something. > > I've been using 2.6-test11 primarily for the last couple of weeks. For > the desktop user I think the most noticeable change are the new sound > drivers, ALSA. The old OSS still exists, as well as an OSS compatibility > layer for ALSA. My experience with ALSA is that it gives me a little too > much power. In my experience with my Sound Blaster Live! emu10k1 card, > by default, no sound was coming out. I opened up alsamixer and fixed > that. But it sounded kind of flat and voices were quiet in comparison to > other sounds. I fiddled around with the literally dozens of options now > in alsamixer and now it works fine. I hope now with ALSA in widespread > use there will be some develop of a just-make-it-sound-good auto config > thing. The commercial distros will probably write scripts to setup it up > right. > > Though I haven't done blind test trials, I think ALSA sounds better. > More full. But its hard to say. > > I'm currently having trouble with test11 and CDs. For some reason, I > have to load the ide-scsi module for the DVD and CD-R to work at all > even though I specifically configured the kernel with not having to do > that in mind (the ide-scsi module being in bad-taste according to Linus.) > > Untarring... > > Ian > > Benjamin Story wrote: > > >Linus released the first official 2.6.0 kernel today. Go to the usual > >places and download your copy today. > > > >----------------------------------------------------------------- > >To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >with Subject: unsubscribe > >----------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with Subject: unsubscribe > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -----------------------------------------------------------------
