[linux-audio-user] ALSA on Redhat - besides the Planet

[Florin Andrei]

On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 06:32, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> 
> just a short information question: Is it true, that Redhat does not
> provide any ALSA packages themselves so people who want to run some of
> the many ALSA applications on Redhat will have to use third-party
> rpm's like Fernando's or from freshrpms.net? Is this really true?

yes

But freshrpms.net works pretty damn well, and PlanetCCRMA all the same,
and the installation process is very simple.

> If
> yes, does someone know what RH's plans are regarding ALSA on kernel
> 2.6?

Recent discussions on the Red Hat development forums have pointed out
that, since 2.6 will certainly include ALSA, then that functionality
will automagically appear in RH once the kernel version will be bumped
up. Which it only makes sense, if you think of it.

That being said, i've been a happy user of the Freshrpms.net packages
for a long time. If Fedora doesn't do anything about it, and if Matthias
or someone else doesn't step up as the ALSA maintained for Fedora, then
i'll do it (as well as for Xine, transcode, dvdauthor and other things
i'm using on a daily basis).

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/