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Re: for those of you who want to use alsa



Thanks Jason! This might come in handy after the upgrading I do tonight.

On Friday 25 January 2002 18:22, [email protected] wrote:
> I was just browsing through packages available in woody and noticed that
> there are now precompiled alsa modules for the 2.4.16 kernel (I'm
> guessing that sid has some for 2.4.17). For those of you who have
> updgraded to woody only to break alsa, this will likely solve your
> problems so long as you are using the 2.4.16 kernel. The problem poeople
> were experiencing was due to the fact that Libranet gave us precompiled
> modules for Alsa 0.5, but when going to woody, alsa steps up to 0.9, and
> we no longer have working modules. Up to now, the only options were to
> compile your own modules, or switch to OSS modules and abandon alsa. Now
> that there are modules available, you should be able to get alsa up and
> running on woody or sid. I personally haven't tried this (I figured out
> how to build the damn things myself), but I would be currious if anyone
> here can restore alsa using these modules. In theory it should be
> simple. Note, there are a variety of modules availble built for
> different CPUs, I saw several including 386,486,586 and k7.
>
> enjoy
>
> jason

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