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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: Grimoire <sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire] linux 2.6.x and alsa
  • Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:58:41 +0100

On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 05:02:27PM -0800, Eric Sandall wrote:
> 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

Are those useful for anything? The only thing related to alsa i have in
my bootscripts is a 'alsactl restore' in bootmisc.

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