Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 May 2006 15:15:06 -0700 | From | 4Front Technologies <> | Subject | Re: How to check if kernel sources are installed on a system? |
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Lee Revell wrote: > On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 23:29 +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: >> If you work on drivers (as it seems), please just clean up the code >> and post it to the kernel mailing list (or subsystem specific lists.) >> Once it meets the standards, it'll just become a part of the tree, >> releasing you from the burden to think about its local installation. > > I am fairly certain the drivers in question are closed source. > >>From www.opensound.com: > > "OSS is now free for home/personal use and doesn't have any restrictions > other than refreshing the software every 4months." > > Lee > >
Yes we are one and the same Open Sound System guys! :)
It doesn't matter if it's open sound or ALSA!. Lee, why don't you go down the ALSA user mailing lists and count the number of 0-Compilation bug reports?
The same problems that affect ALSA (Fixed in CVS being the standard answer of why a sound driver isn't working) affects 4Front's OSS as well.
If you're telling people to compile ALSA downloaded from CVS, you'd ensure that before they start filing bug reports:
1) people had their kernel source installed 2) kernel sources were "configured" for the running kernel 3) compilers/build utils and other libs would
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