Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Mandrake 9.0
From: Austin (aacton_AT_yorku.ca)
Date: Sat Apr 05 2003 - 01:56:12 EEST
That is so not true.
For at least the past three releases, Mandrake has used ALSA by default, if
the driver exists for your sound card.
Austin
On 2003.04.04 16:19 Brian Redfern wrote:
> Suse is the only distro that comes with ALSA by default, that what I
> started with, but moved to redhat because I needed to learn it for work,
> and then just stuck with it when I discovered ccrma.
>
> http://www.brianredfern.org
>
> On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Rob wrote:
>
> > On Friday 04 April 2003 14:18, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> > > AFAICT You're currently the number one distro to get complaints about
> > > audio apps.
> > > What's up with that?
> >
> > I would guess it's a function of being popular among normal
> > (non-kernel-compiling ;) ) users, combined with not having anything of the
> > stature of Planet CCRMA available currently. (Thac's RPM's are a start,
> but
> > there are weird issues with a few of the RPM's and most people don't
> actually
> > know about it so there's a lot of reinventing the wheel going on.)
> >
> > Meanwhile, Mandrake's never been too good at turning on things like MIDI
> > support or ALSA by default. I think I'm using OSS/Free here in 9.0 for
> > example. It sounds like 9.1 may have finally made that right.
> >
> > Rob
> >
> >
>
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Austin Acton Hon.B.Sc.
Synthetic Organic Chemist, Teaching Assistant
Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto
MandrakeClub Volunteer (www.mandrakeclub.com)
homepage: www.groundstate.ca
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