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From: Patrick Holthaus <patrick.holthaus@uni-bielefeld.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: alsa in-kernel vs. alsa-lib
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:17:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200810311317.23693.patrick.holthaus@uni-bielefeld.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dad98e440810310405j24f21ad8kcb549ddcb46ba91e@mail.gmail.com>

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> But i read this after building alsa-lib:
> * Please try in-kernel ALSA drivers instead of the alsa-drivers ebuild.
> * If alsa-drivers works for you where a recent kernel does not, we want
> * to know about this. Our e-mail address is alsa-bugs@gentoo.org
> * However, if you notice no sound output or instability, please try to
> * upgrade your kernel to a newer version first.
>
> and this makes me think i should get rid of those packages as it say
> "instead". Is this wrong? do we still need alsa-lib and co.?

You should _not_ install alsa-drivers if you want to use in-kernel drivers. 
You can and should install alsa-lib etc.

Patrick

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-31 12:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-30 22:42 [gentoo-user] alsa in-kernel vs. alsa-lib Pupino
2008-10-30 23:04 ` Andrey Vul
2008-10-30 23:46   ` Markos Chandras
2008-10-30 23:52     ` Joshua Murphy
2008-10-31 10:30       ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2008-10-31 11:05         ` Pupino
2008-10-31 12:17           ` Patrick Holthaus [this message]
2008-10-31 12:46           ` Neil Bothwick
2008-10-31 15:43             ` Pupino
2008-10-31 14:08         ` Iain Buchanan
2008-10-31 14:32           ` Nikos Chantziaras
2008-10-31  2:53     ` [gentoo-user] " Iain Buchanan
2008-10-31  8:41       ` Markos Chandras

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