Am 20.03.2017 um 18:41 schrieb Wolfgang Schweer: > Hi. > > On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 03:30:15PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: >> Am 20.03.2017 um 11:21 schrieb Holger Levsen: >>> Shall we replace alsa-base with kmod then? or is that rather >>> useless, because udev and others already depend on kmod? >> >> For that to answer properly, I would need to know why the suggests >> alsa-base was added in the first place. > > AFAICT it has been added (years ago) to ensure that sound will work. > I've tested if sound works for the Debian Edu supported DEs (KDE, MATE, > Xfce, LXDE, GNOME) in Stretch: it does. As kmod is already pulled in, no > replacement is needed, I guess. If this was added for loading the audio drivers, it's rather that this is no longer necessary nowadays. See https://wiki.debian.org/Modules#Automatic_loading_of_modules -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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