Re: more sound difficulties

[Christopher Fonnesbeck <chrisf@fonnesbeck.net>]

Thanks for the help.  I will try your configuration.
> 
> First off, why does a production machine *need* sound unless you are
> doing sound work?  

Some users will be doing sound work.

>Servers probably shouldn't even have sound cards.

Its a laptop, not a server


> Secondly, ALSA is still beta software and you really shouldn't blame
> Debian for its failings.  

I wasnt blaming Debian per se, but I was told that it was the best
approach, when my first attempts were failing.

> Thirdly, if you are doing sound programming,
> you might as well stick with OSS since alsa-lib is changing so rapidly.
> 

OSS wasnt working at all.

> Cheers,
> Chris
> 
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