That is so not true. For at least the past three releases, Mandrake has used ALSA by default, if the driver exists for your sound card. Austin On 2003.04.04 16:19 Brian Redfern wrote: > Suse is the only distro that comes with ALSA by default, that what I > started with, but moved to redhat because I needed to learn it for work, > and then just stuck with it when I discovered ccrma. > > http://www.brianredfern.org > > On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Rob wrote: > > > On Friday 04 April 2003 14:18, Patrick Shirkey wrote: > > > AFAICT You're currently the number one distro to get complaints about > > > audio apps. > > > What's up with that? > > > > I would guess it's a function of being popular among normal > > (non-kernel-compiling ;) ) users, combined with not having anything of the > > stature of Planet CCRMA available currently. (Thac's RPM's are a start, > but > > there are weird issues with a few of the RPM's and most people don't > actually > > know about it so there's a lot of reinventing the wheel going on.) > > > > Meanwhile, Mandrake's never been too good at turning on things like MIDI > > support or ALSA by default. I think I'm using OSS/Free here in 9.0 for > > example. It sounds like 9.1 may have finally made that right. > > > > Rob > > > > > -- Austin Acton Hon.B.Sc. Synthetic Organic Chemist, Teaching Assistant Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto MandrakeClub Volunteer (www.mandrakeclub.com) homepage: www.groundstate.ca
