[CLUE-Tech] sound card config

[Adam Bultman]

I've never been able to get ALSA working. Never. Not once.  Compile
errors, all that crap. Not even in the 2.5.x kernels, where it's built
in!  Yikes!




On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Matt Gushee wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 08:41:11PM -0600, David Anselmi wrote:
>
> > That means you have the wrong driver.  Making things work the way you
> > want after you get the right driver might not be trivial.  I've yet to
> > tweak KDE's artsd and the emu10k driver sufficiently.  The alsa sound
> > drivers seem much nicer to me, but aren't part of the 2.4 kernel yet.
>
> After a long and unhappy relationship with the OSS modules (every time I
> wanted to do something new with sound, I would have to reconfigure the
> modules, the quality was always mediocre ... and lacking good
> documentation, I had to spend several hours trial 'n' erroring to get
> MIDI working), I finally broke down and installed ALSA last month. Wow!
> What a difference! Now a single modprobe command correctly activates
> everything, and my sound quality is somewhat better than I get with the
> vendor-supplied Windows drivers, and enormously improved over the OSS
> drivers*. So I'm now an ALSA advocate, I guess.
>
> Although the ALSA drivers aren't included in the kernel, I found them
> easy to compile. And the ALSA project has good sound-card-specific
> documentation; they even have ready-made Debian configuration data,
> which worked for me without modification.
>
> * At least, that's true for my desktop machine. I'm also trying ALSA on
>   my laptop, but haven't been able to get it working. Cheap-ass NeoMagic
>   $@&*%#&)#!
>
>

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