Alsa 0.5.10 w/ Debian - was: Re: not working yet

John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com
Fri Dec 29 00:37:28 EST 2000


Well, alias got changed onb me without even being asked, so I am glad
my alsa stuff was in a separate file.

Frank Carmickle <frankiec at braille.uwo.ca> writes:

> No no no.  Geoff.  aliases does not get changed.  modules.conf gets
> changed.  Kirk and I have always used aliases for alsa.
> 
> Frank
> 
> 
> On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Geoff Shang wrote:
> 
> > Hi:
> > 
> > Under debian, you don't need it all in aliases.  In fact, it's better if
> > it's not, as aliases can get replaced during an upgrade.  It will ask you
> > about it, but it's easier to let it do what it has to do rather than have
> > to manually change it out and then back in again.  Update-modules will put
> > in any files that are in /etc/modutils, so if you have a file called alsa
> > (like Terry does), it will get pulled in after aliases.
> > 
> > Note that this is how debian does it.  Don't know about anyone else.
> > 
> > Geoff.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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