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Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 09:46:48 -0700
From: David Csercsics <david@really.isa-geek.net>
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Comments: In-reply-to Cheryl Homiak <chomiak@charter.net>   message dated
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Subject: Re: alsa and 2.6 kernels
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>For when I screw up my courage to try alsa again, does enabling it in the
>2.6 kernel make any difference in how you actually install it compared to
>when it wasn't a kernel option? And what is the best version of utils,
>libs and drivers to use?



I would not use the ALSA that comes with the 2.6 kernels because it
has issues. Just build it the same as you would for 2.4 as modules. Get
the latest version of ALSA which is 1.04.