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Yo penguinistas, I gotta install ALSA drivers for my M-audio sound card so I can stop booting Windows just to listen to a CD... does anyone here have experience / words of advice regarding ALSA? (I know there's documentation out there but it is invariably out of date or simply wrong) |
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huh, never even heard of ALSA. but i'm no guru, i just use linux |
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It stands for advanced linux sound architecture. I wish Red Hat would install it by default 'cause it includes drivers for many more sound cards. You use Debian, right? |
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Honestly dude, the best thing to do is find instructions for your particularly card and follow them precisely. Oh wait, what distro you using? |
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Red Hat 7.3. I didn't even check if I have ALSA binaries on the CDs because they'd be woefully out of date by now. |
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Okay - now I'm assuming you're using Red Hat - just use the ALSA rpm for your distro. Surely you know how to use rpms by now. Hope that helps. |
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i use alsa under suse 8.1, experiencing some problems though, gotta restart alsa every few hours |
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I use Mandrake and it makes all this shit so easy. They've got the most popular Linux software included on the discs... So if you want to make your life a little easier, Mandrake is the way to go. |
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debian indeed although now i'm on a windows machine which i set up today |
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Heh, I was gonna compile the source. Tarballs are fresher! I'm hoping someone can tell me how to make sure the OSS emulation is working, stuff like that. By the way, the M-audio card has no digital in on the side of the card that connects to the digital out on the CD. To listen to a CD I have to use a Winamp plugin that reads the data directly through the IDE channel. Do you know if XMMS has a plugin like that? I'm guessing that the default Gnome and KDE players don't do this. |
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Sorry man, I've got no idea - never had to experiment with it that much :). Good luck. |
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debian has the package system. beats any other distros. |
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Mandrake has some excellent user-friendly tools to install fonts and set up networking, and I loooove their partitioning/repartitioning software. But sadly it comes at the expense of stability. Some of the Mandrake distros were locking up on me. |
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Neetta, let's say I get Debian - can I really type one line and have it install the latest KDE with all the dependencies? Or do you have to wait for a maintainer to roll up .deb packages? I have also heard good things about the Gentoo portage system - it's not a package manager so much as a recipe-manager. |
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in most cases you can just type one line. |
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look on newsnet. there are just sooo many people who would know the answer. at least that's what i do. yeah mandrake is cool, makes life nice and easy. (most of the time:) |
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yea debian RULLZZZ! |
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I use Gentoo linux and I don't need ALSA or OSS. I just compile in the necessary support in kernel/modules. |
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Sheeeit. I think Gentoo is my next distro. |
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cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp |
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ahahaaaa look at the poor little linux users havin problems.. awww poor buggers. Thank goodness i dont have this kind of crap with my good old windows XP :))) |
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:( you are evil. think about the starving little programmers who still try to stand up against m$.. |
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well, any software programmer should be smart enough to know that microsoft cannot be overthrown, and that they obviously got a job at the wrong company. Brave? maybe, but smart, not really :P |
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good point. MS just had luck, cuz of IBM and Xerox. And i'm sure the great time of Linux will come. |
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you pay a lot more for MS-licenses than for the OS's. that's just one point why i hate MS overall.. |
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