Re: sound problems

["Robert G. Brown" <bob@xxxxxxx>]

>> I'm wearing a tank top today.
>Gee, thanks for that image, Bob!   ;{)
Yeah, ain't that something? :)

>> I am very reluctant to upgrade OS versions simply to get a device working...
>Sometimes just upgrading and not worrying about the "why" saves time....
That's fine. Simply pointing out some of my own approach and reasoning.

>>Note that there are plenty of OTHER reasons to upgrade to RH "5.2" BSWare....
>"Security fixes" being the main reason I keep on top of updates,
>and created BSware in the first place.
OK...

>>Bruce and I have both chucked the "improved" OSS support and gone to ALSA,...
>>Heck, THIS machine (look at the header) is still on 2.0.30, like RH FOUR >>POINT TWO (not for long!).
>If you don't need full-duplex, then OSS is fine.  (and a lot easier! :)
>For normal sound, I can't tell any difference in quality between ALSA & OSS.
I don't think ALSA is "harder"; it was simply harder to understand some
of the things the developers were suggesting, mostly because English is hardly
their native language. I'm doing something about that now by writing better
documentation for ALSA, at on the install/configure side.

Readers should note that I run my own LAN, and the kernel on the gateway
to the Internet is a 2.0.35-2 kernel, specially patched for a few things ;)
Otherwise I would have upgraded this machine long ago, for security if
nothing else.

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