Re: [gentoo-dev] Possible virtual/alsa change

["Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <flameeyes@gentoo.org>]

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On Monday 17 October 2005 20:25, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> Change virtual/alsa to match virtual/kernel-sources in
> base/virtuals, and change virtual/alsa to alsa-driver on architectures
> still using a 2.4 kernel.
This might be a bit of a problematic choice... I usually suggest using 
alsa-driver also if the in-kernel is "quicker" to manage... The reason is 
that I still fear for alsa-lib/-driver differences, and there was at least a 
couple of issues with in-kernel emu10k1 drivers in the past that solved using 
alsa-driver, as they got fixed first.

Also, alsa-driver allows to have more updated drivers also using old 2.6 
versions, and there are quite a bit of people that does not like to update 
the kernel if they don't have to (I think I'm one of them now, after the day 
spent looking why the system got unstable -and finding out the swap space 
lost somehow the signature), but might have issues with alsa that can be 
solved with a simple alsa-driver.

For the rest, probably is good to have virtuals and doc in-sync..

-- 
Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/
Gentoo/ALT lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE

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