At Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:19:29 +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > > Hello developers, > > Debian applies the following patch to alsaconf: > > Index: alsa-utils-1.0.15/alsaconf/alsaconf.in > =================================================================== > --- alsa-utils-1.0.15.orig/alsaconf/alsaconf.in 2007-10-21 > 14:57:02.000000000 +0200 > +++ alsa-utils-1.0.15/alsaconf/alsaconf.in 2007-10-21 14:57:02.000000000 +0200 > @@ -458,8 +458,16 @@ > Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) driver. > > > - You should stop all sound applications now." $version) > - $DIALOG --msgbox "$msg" 20 63 || acex 0 > + You should stop all sound applications now. > + > + Please notice, that sound configuration with this script > + is not needed if you are running testing/sid with an up > + to date kernel and your sound device is a supported PCI > + one. In that case *udev* is predestinated to load your > + driver ;) > + But any way, you can finish this procedure with a working > + PCI-Sound at the end." $version) > + $DIALOG --msgbox "$msg" 24 63 || acex 0 > } Ditto for USB. It won't be detected anyway. > > # FAREWELL > > The added note is completely valid: in most cases, there is nothing to > do, even for ISA-PnP cards (because all self-respecting distributions > already contain a rule for loading ISA-PnP drivers). However, the very > presence of alsaconf generates a lot of support traffic on forums in > the form "I have tried alsaconf and it didn't help" (or worse, ruined > a working setup). Also, it cannot deal with more than one sound card. > > Could you please either apply the above patch (of course, replacing > the wording with a distro-neutral one), Yes, that's better. Majority of people have no idea what testing/sid means. > or just drop this obsolete program No, it's no option. Your world isn't mine, there are still users (unfortunately) for old systems... > and replace it with the "alsa-unmute" script which essentially > contains the same as the set_mixers() function (but allows to specify > the card to unmute)? A program to initialize the sound status is really nice. I have worked on it a little bit and some code snippet to add "alsactl init" to initialize the volume levels on certain dB level. I'll still need to brush up for publishing it, though. Takashi _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
