[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#481979: Bug#481979: some condiderations

[Elimar Riesebieter]

On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 the mental interface of
Andrea told:

> Ok,
> but alsa-base is an optional package and a normal user have to explicitly 
> install it to avoid snd-pcsp loaded as first sound card.
> I had problem after trying 2.6.26 debian kernel from trunk (on lenny): at 
> reboot artsd (i use kde) failed to work because of "CPU overload" (top 
> command show 99% of cpu usage) , this was due to snd-pcsp; resolved manually 
> installing alsa-base.
> Because most of users have a sound card installed and use alsa it's important 
> to have snd-pcsp blacklisted even without alsa-base installed. 
> Adding a Depends to alsa-base on libasound2 will be a good solution?

Well, users are using artsd need to blacklist snd-pcsp, right? Maybe
esound users as well. So it makes more sense to depend those zo
alsa-base?

Elimar

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