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iExcel
Tux's lil' helper
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Location: Oakville, ON
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 Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 9:31 am Post subject: ALSA build necessary for GNOME? |
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| I'm about to load GNOME2.2 and wonder if I need to enable 'alsa' in the USE variable? Do I need it? Thx. |
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qwkbrnfox
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Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
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| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 3:16 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't think so. You can easily use OSS instead. ESD is a layer that gnome uses for sound, that will work with either ALSA or OSS. ESD itself is optional, if you don't want fancy window-sliding sounds. |
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dol-sen
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Location: Richmond, BC, Canada
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| Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2003 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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| I didn't have much luck with the built in drivers for the via82xx chip. I am now using alsa, seems to work better/less crashing, although half the time I log in gnome is failing to connect to the sound driver. I still hve to look into that. |
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