On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 11:53 -0700, iainduncan@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Quoting Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 11:40 -0700, iainduncan@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > IE a fresh > > > install of Ubuntu won't even aplay, with one of the most popular > > > prosumer audio > > > cards out there! That is terrible. > > > > Which card? What were the symptoms? > > Delta 66. Worked fine until I actually installed any audio utils, then after > that even aplay wouldn't work. aplay won't work if JACK is running as this card lacks hardware mixing. > More troubling is the fact that it seemed near > impossible to gut all the sound stuff and start recompiling alsa drivers as > modules so that my card would be seen by the system as multi cards if I wan't it > to be. Ubuntu has rolled alsa control into gnome so you can't remove alsa > without removing gnome, unless you want to start rebuilding your entire desktop > , which kinda negates the advantages of Ubunutu. I googled a bit and found a lot > of others complaining about ice1712 bugs and how difficult it is to fix so to > heck with that. > You can build new ALSA packages, or just compile ALSA and install over the Ubuntu ALSA modules. Lee
