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[alvaro <aepaz AT entelchile.net>]

> >   I don't understand why the Gnome2 stuff seems so stuck up on alsa!
> > Thanks for any help you can give me.
>
> I can't really say I understand how this would happen. Is anyone out
> there sucessfully running gnome 2.0 without alsa?
>
> Jon
>

i'm running gnome2 without alsa... don't know about the 'sucessfull' part, 
though: it seems ok... but i dont get any sound at log-in. My sound-playing 
apps are ok.
Rebuilding the system without alsa was painfull... and long, and involved. A 
plain rebuild didnt work, i remember doing a bunch of cast --nofix, then at 
the failure points i started to manually check dependencies and compiling 
those, a few times i had to manually recompile things a 3 or 4 levels deep.
But i was removing alsa from my system, wich made it worse.
I'm not sure if i took notes, but i'll check. I remember it was so painful, 
that now that i *need* alsa to get midi support for my SBLive i'm just too 
afraid to install it!.

alvaro