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RE: Sound - ALSA or kernel?



In my limited experiance I must say that the ALSA approach worked much
smoother and easier than the OSS eqvivliant. Thats with my Awe 64 ISA PNP
and I even got it working with two soundcards at the same time, thats hard
to do (if not impossible) with the OSS modules.
/nisse

On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Brendon Baumgartner wrote:

> Hmm, you'll have to use isapnp for it. I know there is a awe howto out there
> also. Another thing is to check the kernel docs. There is some awe stuff in
> there. Good luck. From my soundcard experiences, using oss in the kernel is
> much easier. I hear alsa is better, but if you don't need its "betterness"
> ... go the easy way till alsa is mroe integrated and improved.
> 
> bb
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carley, Jason (Australia) [mailto:jason_carley@exchange.au.ml.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 10:46 PM
> To: 'debian-user list'
> Subject: Sound - ALSA or kernel?
> 
> 
> I was after ideas on the best way to get my Awe 64 running under slink.
> Should I use the ALSA drivers or the kernel modules.  Under SuSE I had great
> difficulty with isapnp issues and the kernel modules.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
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