iAnd, is this same machine that you only wanted to run an ftp server on last month? So, you chose Debian because Fedora would require you to download 4 iso images? Didn't this start out as "which distro is better?' What do you say about that now, half a month later? Glenn at home writes: > When I looked into it, both on this list, and on the www, there was little > to no mention of oss, and it began to sound like Alsa is better. > Glenn > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net> > To: "Glenn at home" <GlennErvin at cableone.net>; "Speakup is a screen review > system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 1:07 PM > Subject: Re: frustrated > > > OK. So we've established you have the OSS drivers. > > Now, the other question in my last email--there were two questions. > > Why alsa particularly? Why isn't OSS good enough? > > Glenn at home writes: > > I got 3 lines that refer to emu10k1 > > input > > sound > > midi > > and the midi line is the only one with a Y at the end, the other 2 have an > > M. > > Glenn > > Try this: > > > > grep -i emu10k [config.filename] > > > > If that comes back with "yes" or "m", then your kernel comes with the > > OSS drivers, not ALSA, which would be expected in 2.4 kernels. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Chair > Accessibility Workgroup > Free Standards Group (FSG) > > janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040 > > If Linux doesn't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem. -- Janina Sajka, Chair Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040 If Linux doesn't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem.
