I'm sorry, but I'm desperet

Joseph C. Lininger jbahm at pcdesk.net
Thu Sep 18 20:05:17 EDT 2003


He called me and we've got the sound card working now.
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Joseph C. Lininger
jbahm at pcdesk.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ann Parsons" <akp at eznet.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 8:50 PM
Subject: Re: I'm sorry, but I'm desperet


> Hi all,
>
> The question about whether someone had read the manual can, in some
> cases, become a match that sets off an explosion.  If Chris has been
> reading the manual, and something isn't clear that is preventing the
> Alsa drivers from compiling properly, then he needs help to interpret
> what he has read.  Sometimes reading the manual compounds the
> problem.
>
> I think that Chris would be better served if his questions were
> answered rather than inquiring as to his competency in reading man
> pages.
>
> "Have you read the manual?", is a easy, quick and dirty solution to
> someone's problem.  I know that it is important to understand
> documentation, but sometimes one needs to talk to a human, not a
> manual.  Sounds like Chris has been struggling with alsa for a long
> time.  I can't help, don't know enough.  However, I do know that
> configuring Alsa can be complicated and frustrating.  Let's not get a
> bad rep like the Emacspeak list, guys.  Somebody, please give this guy
> a hand.
>
> Ann P.
>
> -- 
> Ann K. Parsons
> email:  akp at eznet.net
> WEB SITE:  http://home.eznet.net/~akp
> "All that is gold does not glitter.  Not all those who wander are lost."
JRRT
>
>
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