Re: OSS driver cleanups.

Jeff Garzik
2001-12-04T16:58:55Z

Jamie Lokier wrote:
>
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > I'm sure people will continue using the OSS drivers even after they
> > become the "old" sound drivers... for a while at least.
>
> Not least because I have reports from my housemate that ALSA drivers are
> a b*tch to set up. To be done only if there isn't an OSS driver for
> your card. Whereis with OSS you just load a module and its done.

If "modprobe snd-card-via686" doesn't just-work that is a regression
from 2.4 and thus a bug. There should be no alsa-conf or anything else
required for these drivers to work.

Jeff

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