FC2 Sound Bugs - ALSA Update Needed

[micheal]

On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 01:46 -0500, David Curry wrote:
> Sound recording is non-functional in FC2 due to bugs in two recording 
> applications included in the distribution - alsa (v1.0.3a) and 
> gnome-sound-recorder.  One FC2 user, Erik P. Olsen, has reported that 
> "issue 820 on alsa bugtracking system deals with the problem and that he 
> has not received any response to comments he added to the problem report 
> about a week ago.  Since this problem has apparently been addressed in a 
> slightly updated alsa release included in FC3 (alsa v1.0.6-3), it seems 
> improbable that patches for alsa version 1.0.3 will be forthcoming.  To 
> this linux neophyte, it also seems likely rebuilding FC3 alsa packages 
> for FC2 would amount to a bug fix. 
> 
> Since there are multiple FC2 users who have encountered the alsa bug and 
> a relatively straightforward fix appears readily available, could we get 
> fedora developers to release an update of alsa packages for FC2?
> 
>  
> 

David,  

As much as I sympathize with your question,  posting it to this list
would probably not get you very far to a resolution.  The best thing to
do is file a RFE in bugzilla.

MC