"Peter Jay Salzman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > You'll know if something is wrong. I'm wondering if it's a kernel > dependency bug?
Try ALSA. I have two systems with SoundBlaster 16 cards and they both work nicely with the ALSA drivers from kernel 2.6 . So maybe Pete Salzman is right about a kernel problem. OSS is deprecated in 2.6 and I guess there is a reason. I like at least how all the ALSA module names start with snd- so you know what they are for. I'm not an expert, but it seems better organized because of things like that, and there are alot more cards supported. Apparently OSS has licensing problems which I guess is why ALSA is more of a complete solution now. ALSA has OSS emulation also, which is useful for things which haven't had much done with them for a while and were written in the age of OSS. Pete Salzman said the other day about Robert Scofield's problem that compiling your own kernels is helpful in learning about the structure of Linux, and I agree with him. I have learned alot from the kernel docs and the help in the config. I also feel more distro independent and more portable. I have a better understanding of what "Linux" really means instead of a particular distributions interpretation. I've read about the problems between AT&T and Berkeley UNIX in the 80s and the differences between distros, especially the commercial ones, seem similar. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
