On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 08:49, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Wednesday 28 May 2003 03:40, Matthias Saou wrote: > > Huh!? Why would you want to leave out ALSA support in the first place? > > Having it will only require installing one extra package, alsa-lib, which > > is a 300k download. Same for aalib, 200k. > > Because I have never needed it, nor do I want yet another sound system > kludging up my system. OSS has worked for me since day one, and I'd like to > keep it that way. Too many people I've talked to have followed the alsa > trail on your packages and got left w/out any sound at all. > This will be true for both OSS *and* ALSA. The Intel i810 embedded sound card lacks some important sound output w/OSD, but has it in ALSA. Guess what card is included on *many* laptops and embedded boards used in large corporations theses days? On the other hand, ALSA is in 2.5, and OSS is deprecated, so ALSA will be there in 2.6. > > Oh and btw, aalib is an absolute geek requirement. How can one live without > > the ability to amaze non-geeks by playing a movie in ASCII on the Linux > > console!? I wonder! :-) > > Yeah.... absolutly necessary when trying to install a video player to watch > the company meeting video file.... ... or play mp3 files on that company computer? Sorry, but you don't get to use a business desktop as a "model" when complaining about MP3 support. Most companies ban MP3s. -- Bill Anderson RHCE #807302597505773 bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
