Re: sound problems

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

>>Alsa is "harder" because Redhat 5.2 comes with an improved version of
>>the program "sndconfig" that does all the setup work for you with the
>>OSS drivers.  It also probes most sound cards, and for non-standard
>>setups, it lets you "trial & error" try out different drivers, ports
>>and IRQ's until you get the sound card working.
>>There is nothing like that for ALSA (AFAIK), so you must configure
>>the modules & parameters manually.  That's definitely harder.
>AH! So I could use sndconfig to get the OSS drivers working and then tranpose
>those configuration setting (irq, dma, buffer size, etc...) onto the ALSA
>drivers.
That's about what I did; use ISAPnP and sndconfig to get the basics down, 
then configure ALSA accordingly.
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