Expanding towards ALSA

[Kreg Steppe]

I am interested in Brian's original question. Why would you want to use 
Alsa? What advantages does it have?

Kreg

Brian Fahrlander wrote:

>On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 12:11, Matthias Saou wrote:
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>>Believe it or not, I had never heard of alsaconf before! :-) My guess would
>>be because it isn't installed by default with "make install"...
>>I'll check it out and eventually include it in further alsa-driver
>>packages.
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>>In the meantime, there are instructions and links on how to configure
>>modules.conf here : http://freshrpms.net/docs/alsa/
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>    Really?  That's incredible.  It's a fairly simple script; it takes
>several readings and guesses at a /etc/modules.conf modification, and it
>usually guesses pretty accurately.  It's a really nice thing.
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>    Under RH8/9 the FreshRPMs versions of Alsa have had alsaconf, but it
>had a slightly-broken set of startup scripts. (/etc/rc.d/init.d/asound,
>etc).  Nothing big; just a little bug that only makes it iffy the first
>time around.
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>    But I noticed that there's no "tools" RPM on FreshRPMS- there is on
>other ones, but the version numbers don't match up, so I didn't want to
>risk it.  I thought maybe it was moved to the "utils" RPM, but it's not
>in there.  
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>    Someone suggested I rebuild from an SRPM, but that didn't cause it
>to magically appear, either. :)  No biggie- I Googled for someone else's
>/etc/modules.conf file who also had an SBLive, and it worked on the
>first pull.
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>    Someone else mentioned that it's part of the development tree;
>somewhere in the vast collection of files that eventually make it to the
>RPM, alsaconf exists, somewhere.  But unfortunately I don't have any
>details- I don't dabble in the affairs of kernel drivers- they're quick
>to anger and...how's that old line go?
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>    Thanks!
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