[clue-tech] SFD 2008.

[David L. Anselmi]

Collins Richey wrote:
> 1. On our RHEL4 systems (ancient, alas) we lost sound as soon as the
> next level of HP desktop boxes arrived. Sure, we could rebuild alsa
> from scratch, or switch to RHEL5 but then RH screwed up LDAP support
> in 5.2 (appears to be fixed now).

Really?  I'd think there would be a standard interface by now, at least 
for basic things.  And especially at the alsa level, even if new chip 
sets needed new drivers.  Do you have any more info?

> 2. A year an a half ago, I was running Ubuntu, and sound was working
> fine on my box, but I tried Debian Testing, and the kernel was too old
> to drive my card.

How long did it take to get a new kernel in testing?

Dave