Stephen Patterson <s.patterson@freeuk.com> writes: > What with all the sound card posts flying round recently, it doesn;t > seem like anyone's getting audio, and here I am with 2 systems working > perfectly with OSS (no udev/devs and none of that alsa malarky).g A lot of people who write asking about sound to the list seem to have four things in common: 1) They don't bother to read the archives, even though every sound issue possible has been covered ad nauseum, ad infinitum. 2) They don't bother to read the sound HOWTOs[1], which very, very clearly[2] how to set it up. 3) They haven't heard of Google or they wouldn't belong to either of the above groups. 4) They actively fight any attempt to be given a clue. I've given up on this class of moron and tend to avoid them. Now if there was a way to do the same with people who drive like they learned to drive in California, I might still have a back bumper and a muffler on my truck... [1] http://ursine.ca/cgi-bin/dwww?type=file&location=/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/HOWTO-INDEX/../Alsa-sound.html for ALSA users, http://ursine.ca/cgi-bin/dwww?type=file&location=/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/HOWTO-INDEX/../Sound-HOWTO/index.html for OSS users, http://ursine.ca/cgi-bin/dwww?type=file&location=/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/HOWTO-INDEX/../Soundblaster-AWE.html for SoundBlaster AWE users, among a bajillion other mirrors and resources. [2] I managed to figure it out 1997 when I was a Red Hat n00b using the Sound HOWTO, and it's *way* easier in Debian than Red Hat. -- Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> Linux. You can find a worse OS, but it costs more.
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