Re: Second official Test Cycle for Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 scheduled (fwd)
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 03:51:04AM -0700, Dr. Yasha Karant wrote:
> > > One request, please -- I have made this request before but the Debian
> > > folks just seem not to listen.
Who exactly did you ask?
> > > Many "commercial" linux distributions (e.g., Red Hat) come with the
> > > sound support built-in. I (and others) have had problem building the
> > > sound system from scratch. What I have had to do is to go to the
> > > archives of another distribution (for the same actual linux kernel as
> > > the one Debian installed on my platform, e.g., 2.0.36), find the
> > > actual sound driver binary modules, ftp these to my workstation, and
> > > then load these into the running kernel. I do not mind using loadable
> > > binary driver modules -- I mind not having sound support.
So, the kernel-image-2.0.36 (according to the example) package didn't
include the sound modules you needed? Then you should file a bug, requesting
that they are included. For more information on sending bug reports see
http://bugs.debian.org/ or /usr/doc/debian/bug-reporting.txt .
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