On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 11:53 -0700, iainduncan@email-addr-hidden wrote:
> Quoting Lee Revell <rlrevell@email-addr-hidden-job.com>:
>
> > On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 11:40 -0700, iainduncan@email-addr-hidden 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
Received on Sat Sep 23 00:15:34 2006
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