[ltp] IBM notebook A21m Sound + Debian

[Martin Sanborn]

On Saturday 19 January 2002 09:23 am, you wrote:
> Is there someway that I can fix this in such a way that I don't have
> to keep cranking up some GUI sound-level manager and toggle it when I
> start up?

Maybe something like oss-preserve? 
http://packages.debian.org/testing/admin/oss-preserve.html 
Also, does wmix restore settings?

> I don't know if the answer is to use alsa instead.  If that's the
> case, I have one question.  I still need all the sound drivers in the
> kernel (modules) right?
> ALSA is an extension to sound, not a replacement?

You'll want to look at the full details at http://www.alsa-project.org, but 
in short, no, you don't need any of the OSS sound drivers in the kernel. And 
as was already pointed out, ALSA is a replacement for the OSS drivers. Most 
audio applications (xmms, esound, arts, etc) have ALSA compatibility either 
built in or available as an add-on, so depending on your application, you may 
not need the ALSA OSS compatibility stuff at all.  They are close to a 1.0 
release for the ALSA code, so I'm not sure how much the API is still 
changing. I would imagine most of it is stable, but who knows. I've been 
using it for a number of years now (3 I think) without too much trouble.

Marty Sanborn

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