Re: Kernel sound support

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr wrote:
>Mike Bilow wrote:
>> Or install just the added modules, as is done for PCMCIA.
>
>You mean alsa modules which are really outdated now, and the maintainer
>not giving a bit of attention to the bug reports I filed aeons ago?
>The new upstream sources fix tons of bugs, better support, etc. I'm
>using alsa-0.5.7 and it works much better. alsa-modules, alsa-source, alsa-lib
>alsa-utils... all need to be updated, and they require almost no work.
>The new sources are a drop-in replacement. The potato versions are
>at the presenet 0.4.x

[cjw44@riva ~]$ dpkg -p alsa-source
Package: alsa-source
Priority: optional
Section: sound
Installed-Size: 1002
Maintainer: Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org>
Architecture: all
Source: alsa-driver
Version: 0.5.7-7
[...]

(woody)

Presumably these weren't considered stable enough for potato at the time
of the feature freeze.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]