From rpm-list-admin@freshrpms.net Sat Oct 5 10:35:52 2002 Return-Path: Delivered-To: yyyy@localhost.spamassassin.taint.org Received: from localhost (jalapeno [127.0.0.1]) by jmason.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27EEF16F17 for ; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 10:35:22 +0100 (IST) Received: from jalapeno [127.0.0.1] by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0) for jm@localhost (single-drop); Sat, 05 Oct 2002 10:35:22 +0100 (IST) Received: from egwn.net (auth02.nl.egwn.net [193.172.5.4]) by dogma.slashnull.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g94LuXK10676 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 22:56:33 +0100 Received: from auth02.nl.egwn.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by egwn.net (8.11.6/8.11.6/EGWN) with ESMTP id g94Lo3f02123; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 23:50:03 +0200 Received: from bob.dudex.net (dsl092-157-004.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.157.4]) by egwn.net (8.11.6/8.11.6/EGWN) with ESMTP id g94Lmff28624 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 23:48:41 +0200 Received: from [66.92.157.3] (helo=www.dudex.net) by bob.dudex.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 17xaKc-0006jX-00 for rpm-list@freshrpms.net; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 17:49:58 -0400 X-Originating-Ip: [4.64.218.140] From: "" Angles " Puglisi" To: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?RPM=2DList?=" Subject: Re: Alsa/Redhat 8 compatability Message-Id: <20021004.rnl.09750400@www.dudex.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Mailer: AngleMail for phpGroupWare (http://www.phpgroupware.org) v 0.9.14.000 X-Mailscanner: Found to be clean, Found to be clean Sender: rpm-zzzlist-admin@freshrpms.net Errors-To: rpm-zzzlist-admin@freshrpms.net X-Beenthere: rpm-zzzlist@freshrpms.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rpm-zzzlist@freshrpms.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Freshrpms RPM discussion list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Original-Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 21:45:33 +0000 Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 21:45:33 +0000 Matthias Saou (matthias@rpmforge.net) wrote*: >I really think that with my ALSA packages, ALSA on Red Hat Linux has never >been so easy! ;-) I had been hand building those alsa packages for probably 6 months or more, so I could use my laptop's ESS chip best (hard disk recording and such). Wow, maybe 8 to 10 months, time flys. I didn't look forward to doing that tedious build every time I changed a kernel or something. Matthias has made this a thing of the past! Dude, it's a no brainer, use apt-get or just download and install. What's more, OSS is fully "imitated", older apps using OSS are as happy as a clam. My personal taste tells me newer apps which use alsa sound better (alsaplayer, xmms with alsa module) to my ear. The 2 things that trick people are the modules.conf file, they didn't have that automatic matrix page when I started with alsa, you don't know how good you have it. And on my old installs (only the first time I installed it on a clean box), alsa always was "muted" until you fire up a mixer and turn up the music. It's possible Matthias even took care of that too. Anyway it is/was only a one time thing on 1st install, that was a long time ago for me. Those ALSA dudes had been trying to get it into the 2.4 kernel but missed it, but it's been in 2.5 for a while now, so alsa is the future of sound in the linux kernel. -- That's "angle" as in geometry. _______________________________________________ RPM-List mailing list http://lists.freshrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list