On Thu, 17 Mar, 2005 at 01:18PM -0500, Lee Revell spake thus: > On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 17:50 +0000, james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Mar, 2005 at 02:14PM -0500, Lee Revell spake thus: > > > ALSA 1.0.9-rc1 has a bug that is fatal for SBLive! users. Your system > > > will hang as soon as you play a sound. The Audigy is unaffected. > > > > > > emu10k1 users, please wait for -rc2, or make sure to apply the fix I > > > posted to alsa-devel yesterday. > > > > Hmm. Something just occured to me. I have alsa in my kernel now, > > since I upgraded to 2.6.11. > > > > What's my situation for updates? Am I buggered? Or is there a > > userspace section that can be upgraded without a new kernel or kernel > > patch? > > You can just install new ALSA modules over the ones that come with your > kernel. > > If ALSA is not built as modules but statically compiled into the kernel > then yes you are screwed. But all distros should be shipping ALSA as > modules these days. Oh, that's not trouble. I don't know why I didn't think of that - it's not like I've even used a stock or distro provided kernel for years, and that's how I install nvidia drivers. Please excuse me. I should have engaged my brain instead of my keyboard. James > Lee > > -- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)
