[Pkg-alsa-devel] Re: patch for several bugs

[Bob McElrath]

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Thomas Hood [jdthood@aglu.demon.nl] wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 00:18, Bob McElrath wrote:
> > > Also I have added support in these files for saving the contents of
> > >     /proc/asound/card[0-9]/pcm[0-9][pc]/oss
> > > which should contain something like:
> > >     quake2 0 0 direct
> > >     wine 0 0 direct
> > >     wine-preloader 0 0 direct
> > > and is necessary to get sound working with these programs.
> 
> I have submitted your request as a wish against alsa-base so that it
> doesn't get forgotten.  Thanks again.  I didn't include your patch
> because it doesn't apply to the initscript in CVS and:
> 
> * data should be saved in /var/lib/alsa, not in /etc;
> * saving and restoring of these settings should be done in the same
>   way as the mixer settings are saved and restored.  For modular drivers
>   this means that it should be done by the module loader.  For integral
>   drivers I guess it has to be done in the initscript but I wonder 
>   whether this is the best way.

So you're proposing a kernel patch to save these settings?

Perhaps this should be a 'post-install' and 'pre-remove' directive in
/etc/modules.conf.  Or 'persistdir' but I'm not sure if that does the
same thing...

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Cheers,
Bob McElrath [Univ. of California at Davis, Department of Physics]
    
    It is unpatriotic to question the Kleptocracy.

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