On Thu, 18 May 2000, Adam Fritzler wrote:
> On Wed, 17 May 2000, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
>
> > the commercial oss driver (4-front tech) supports it, and they've fixed
> > their "apm calls with the sound driver loaded cause the machine to hang"
> > bug.
>
> Binary drivers are too much of a bother... And since the docs are
> out, I'd rather spend the time=money either 1) writing the driver or 2)
> waiting for ALSA to write the driver.
I actually agree with you there. I just tested the oss because I was
setting up a laptop (z-505hs)for someone else. the apm bug was really a
show stopper in terms of making the laptop useful and of course cements
your and my position of binary only drivers
> (I'll run binary software but binary kernel modules are just annoying. I
> usually like to run devel kernels anyway.)
4-front has a 2.3 driver, but yeah for myself I have a laptop with a sound
chipset only supported by alsa/2.3 kernels and the backported 2.2x ess
driver.
> af
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