Re: Discuss Digest, Vol 21, Issue 17

["Rich Braun" <user=44@nabble.blu.org>]

 Ruben Safir <[hidden email]> 
> I wwould just add that the GNU Desktop was always better than the MS slaveware 
> ones and I don't see how running MS aps on GNU/Linux is any advantage. 
> 
> Better if you can find GNU aps, although I relize thats not always possible. 

Well, I hate to be blunt, but *duh*.  I agree with you.  The things I'm 
pointing out are what make it difficult to get to Square One with the system: 
plugging my two name-brand monitors into the two jacks on the back of a 
name-brand Intel motherboard and just Expecting It To Work.  If I, as a 
16-year veteran, can't get it to work--how about Joe Consumer?  (Recall that 
Consumer Reports published a Linux advocate's letter last month, with 
essentially the same conclusion about Walmart-volume viability.) 

Item #4 in my openSUSE 11.0 saga: 

4) 
Sound card doesn't come up at all.  I get an obscure error for which Google 
can't even find a resolution: 

  Jul 12 11:27:55 fourcore kernel: snd_als4000: disagrees about version of 
symbol snd_pcm_new 

(along with numerous others).  At boot time the ALSA modprobe gets a 
azx_get_response timeout. 

--- 
Do I really need to rebuild the kernel just to be able to listen to my music? 

:-| 

-rich 


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