Re: ALSA and KDE in debian
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On Monday 16 September 2002 1:41 pm, Karolina Lindqvist wrote:
> I think ALSA is a small problem with KDE on debian.
>
> In KDE 2.2 it was possible to choose different packages for ALSA support
> or not ALSA support, but that was removed in KDE 3 packaging. ARTS can be
> built without ALSA support, with ALSA 0.5 support or with ALSA 0.9 support.
> kdemultimedia does not build cleanly with ALSA 0.9, since support for it is
> simply missing. It only works with ALSA 0.5.
>
> Some newer interesting audio applications require ALSA 0.9. But
> unfortunately, ALSA is not backward compatible, so if there is ALSA 0.9 in
> the kernel, ALSA 0.5 applications won't work. (Maybe some will)
>
> So what should KDE be built with?
>
> One version for all, with two versions ALSA and not ALSA, or with three
> versions, not ALSA, ALSA 0.5 and ALSA 0.9?
>
> I built KDE 3.1 beta with ALSA 0.9 support, but I am not sure that is good
> for everyone. You can also not cleanly rebuild kdemultimedia with ALSA 0.9
>
> Is there maybe some policy, like "debian version XXX has ALSA X.Y as
> standard" or something like that?
>
> -- Karolina
Never seen any problems here. I use alsa 0.9. What sort of problems do you see
with kdemultimedia?
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David Pashley
david@davidpashley.com
Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione.
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