He called me and we've got the sound card working now. -- Joseph C. Lininger jbahm at pcdesk.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ann Parsons" <akp@xxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 8:50 PM Subject: Re: I'm sorry, but I'm desperet > Hi all, > > The question about whether someone had read the manual can, in some > cases, become a match that sets off an explosion. If Chris has been > reading the manual, and something isn't clear that is preventing the > Alsa drivers from compiling properly, then he needs help to interpret > what he has read. Sometimes reading the manual compounds the > problem. > > I think that Chris would be better served if his questions were > answered rather than inquiring as to his competency in reading man > pages. > > "Have you read the manual?", is a easy, quick and dirty solution to > someone's problem. I know that it is important to understand > documentation, but sometimes one needs to talk to a human, not a > manual. Sounds like Chris has been struggling with alsa for a long > time. I can't help, don't know enough. However, I do know that > configuring Alsa can be complicated and frustrating. Let's not get a > bad rep like the Emacspeak list, guys. Somebody, please give this guy > a hand. > > Ann P. > > -- > Ann K. Parsons > email: akp at eznet.net > WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp > "All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >