Re: [gentoo-dev] New ALSA maintainers

[William L. Thomson Jr.]

On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 13:54 -0400, Daniel Drake wrote:
>
> Even though I'm sure my personal opinion is clear, I don't have a strong
> stake in the ALSA herd. The real reason why alsa-driver is not getting
> any support behind it right now is that nobody is standing behind it.
>
> If someone wants to step up and take over maintenance of alsa-driver,
> and put the required amount of time/effort into maintaining such a large
> kernel code base outside of the kernel, then I can accept that. I can
> accept that not everyone shares my views, and although I unintentionally
> managed to frustrate the previous maintainer a few times, I did accept
> that he was willing to stick by ideas just as I was prepared to stick by
> mine.

Lack of package maintainer, makes most all discussions about alsa-driver
moot. Or any package lacking a maintainer. :)

> Everyone who is claiming that alsa-driver works and in-kernel

I personally want to see some chipset ID's. What exact chips people have
that work, and don't work. Please provide the output of 

lspci -nn

Only care about the line for your sound card. And if yours works or
doesn't and with which driver, in-kernel, or external..

Then we can say grep kenrel driver sources, or etc for that chipset ID,
and go from there :)

-- 
William L. Thomson Jr.
Gentoo/Java