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Re: Shouldn't kernel-image-2.6.x-y-z depend on alsa-base ?



Le lundi 07 mars 2005 à 07:26 -0600, Steve Greenland a écrit :
> > Without alsa-base installed, hotplug and discover will load both
> > modules, resulting in various disasters depending on the hardware. It's
> > not because things work with your setup that they are suitable for a
> > stable Debian release.
> 
> Then that's a bug in hotplug and/or discover, not the kernel.

And the workaround we use for this bug is to blacklist one module when
two of them provide the same functionality. The blacklists are in the
alsa-base package, which should then be installed when ALSA modules are
present.
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