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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: Sound in Kde2.0 Beta4
From:       David Grill Watson <dgwatson () kent ! edu>
Date:       2000-09-04 22:50:35
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But KDE won't build if you have the wrong version of the alsa libs.  When 
ALSA changed major versions, they also made major (binary/source 
incompatible) changes to the libs.

So I just say screw the libs, since it works just fine without them.

On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, Rod Roark wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, David Grill Watson wrote:
> > Now for the REAL truth.
> >
> > If you have the alsa libs installed, it will use them - but it only works
> > for certain versions.
> >
> > Period.
> >
> > I uninstalled the alsa libs (even tho I use alsa drivers), simply because
> > OSS emulation works flawlessly, and it's much less hassle.
>
> Not sure I understand this.  The core of ALSA, including OSS emulation,
> is the alsa-drivers package.  This is the part that has all the
> loadable modules and is a pain to understand and install.
>
> Alsa-lib adds some shared libraries which in turn are required by the
> alsa-utils package, but AFAIK doesn't add any complexity that's visible
> to the user.
>
> -- Rod
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