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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: Grimoire <sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire] linux 2.6.x and alsa
  • Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 17:02:27 -0800

Quoting Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 10:24:41PM -0600, Geoffrey Derber wrote:
> > Now that alsa is included in the 2.6.x kernel, I was wondering if the
> > recommended usage was to continue using the alsa-driver spell, or
> > compile the alsa modules into the kernel. If the former, what's the
> > minimum needed for the alsa-driver spell to work. If the later, do we
> > eliminate and/or modify the alsa spells?
> >
> > Geoff
>
> You can do both, use the seperate alsa-driver spell or use the version
> that comes with the kernel, though the alsa-driver spell is probably
> more up to date most of the time (alsa 1.0.1 drivers just got merged
> into 2.6.1-mm4). If the drivers in the kernel work for you, i'd suggest
> using those (that's what i do), the alsa-driver spell is mostly
> interesting on kernel 2.6 if there were bugs in a driver that are fixed
> faster in the alsa-driver package than in the kernel.
> The spells don't need any modification, as nothing depends on
> alsa-driver.

Except the init scripts and alsa sysconfig file come from alsa-driver, not the
kernel.

-sandalle

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