frustrated

[Janina Sajka]

iAnd, is this same machine that you only wanted to run an ftp server on
last month? So, you chose Debian because Fedora would require you to
download 4 iso images?

Didn't this start out as "which distro is better?'

What do you say about that now, half a month later?

Glenn at home writes:
> When I looked into it, both on this list, and on the www, there was little 
> to no mention of oss, and it began to sound like Alsa is better.
> Glenn
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
> To: "Glenn at home" <GlennErvin at cableone.net>; "Speakup is a screen review 
> system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 1:07 PM
> Subject: Re: frustrated
> 
> 
> OK. So we've established you have the OSS drivers.
> 
> Now, the other question in my last email--there were two questions.
> 
> Why alsa particularly? Why isn't OSS good enough?
> 
> Glenn at home writes:
> > I got 3 lines that refer to emu10k1
> > input
> > sound
> > midi
> > and the midi line is the only one with a Y at the end, the other 2 have an
> > M.
> > Glenn
> > Try this:
> >
> > grep -i emu10k [config.filename]
> >
> > If that comes back with "yes" or "m", then your kernel comes with the
> > OSS drivers, not ALSA, which would be expected in 2.4 kernels.
> >
> >
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> 
> Janina Sajka, Chair
> Accessibility Workgroup
> Free Standards Group (FSG)
> 
> janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040
> 
> If Linux doesn't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem.

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				Janina Sajka, Chair
				Accessibility Workgroup
				Free Standards Group (FSG)

janina at freestandards.org	Phone: +1 202.494.7040

If Linux doesn't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem.