[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#287499: Thanks for improving the usability of alsa-base debian package

[AKL. Mantas Kriauciunas]

Hi,

I just got bitten by this alsa-base bug on a sarge system, after
spending about 3 hours digging throug /etc folder :(
(My friend's laptop has both - 2.4 and 2.6 kernels and most of the time h=
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uses 2.4 because suspend doesn't work on 2.6 :( )

On 16 Jan 2005, Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org> wrote:
> Changes:
>  alsa-driver (1.0.8-1) unstable; urgency=3Dlow
[..]
>   - /etc/mod(utils|probe.d)/alsa-base
>     + Don't alias OSS module names to "off".  This was creating
>       too much confusion.  (Closes: #287499, #290663)
[..]		=20

Thanks for removing these evil aliases - they couse only hard to find
problems on systems with 2.4 kernels :(
In future make at least a debconf prompt for changes like this, because
now after upgrade my friend got system with not working sound (sound
modules were specified in /etc/modules ) and it was very hard to find
why modprobe i810_audio doesn't work :(

The best solution in this case would be runtime autodetecting if alsa=20
modules for booting kernel exit and disable oss modules only in such
a case.

--=20
Good luck,
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