Sound in Debian Woody - how to get without kernel recompile
Janina Sajka
janina at rednote.net
Thu Nov 11 14:34:42 UTC 2004
John Heim writes:
> At 07:55 AM 11/11/2004, Janina Sajka you wrote:
> >Ari Moisio writes:
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> I installed Debian Woody but was unable to find any sound modules
> >> anywhere. As i like to alter anything as little as possible i'm looking
> >> for sound modules without full kernel re-compile.
> >>
> >I suspect you misunderstand Debian. The approach of Debian is
> >minimalist. If you didn't ask for sound, you didn't get it.
>
> He probably read the linux sound how-to which still says you have to
> recompile the kernel if you want sound. That thing should be rewritten. You
> probably can still do what it says but you don't have to and you probably
> don't want to.
>
Indeed. Very good point. Debian, nor any other distro as far as I'm
aware, is minimalist to that degree any longer.
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