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

[Andrea Iacovitti]

Il Monday 28 July 2008 19:43:09 Elimar Riesebieter ha scritto:
> 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?

Don't think so: every software package that make use of alsa in turns depends 
on libaosund2.
Anyway i think the important is to avoid auto loading of snd-pcsp: how many 
users would need it?


thanks,
Andrea.