[linux-audio-user] Distros these days? What a mess!

[Lee Revell]

On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 11:53 -0700, iainduncan at telus.net wrote:
> Quoting Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com>:
> 
> > On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 11:40 -0700, iainduncan at telus.net wrote:
> > > IE a fresh
> > > install of Ubuntu won't even aplay, with one of the most popular
> > > prosumer audio
> > > cards out there! That is terrible. 
> > 
> > Which card?  What were the symptoms?
> 
> Delta 66. Worked fine until I actually installed any audio utils, then after
> that even aplay wouldn't work.

aplay won't work if JACK is running as this card lacks hardware mixing.

>  More troubling is the fact that it seemed near
> impossible to gut all the sound stuff and start recompiling alsa drivers as
> modules so that my card would be seen by the system as multi cards if I wan't it
> to be. Ubuntu has rolled alsa control into gnome so you can't remove alsa
> without removing gnome, unless you want to start rebuilding your entire desktop
> , which kinda negates the advantages of Ubunutu. I googled a bit and found a lot
> of others complaining about ice1712 bugs and how difficult it is to fix so to
> heck with that.
> 

You can build new ALSA packages, or just compile ALSA and install over
the Ubuntu ALSA modules.

Lee