[arch-general] sound busted after upgrade to kernel 2.6.30?

[Jozsef]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Tobias Powalowski <t.powa at gmx.de> wrote:

> Am Donnerstag 25 Juni 2009 schrieb Jozsef:
> > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Chris Brannon <cmbrannon at cox.net>
> wrote:
> > > My sound was busted yesterday when I upgraded from kernel 2.6.29 to
> > > 2.6.30. I had to regenerate my asound.state.
> > > At first, I thought it was just my problem, because I use the softvol
> > > plugin.
> > > This gave me trouble in the past.
> > > A friend of mine reported the same experience, so someone else had
> audio
> > > problems on upgrade as well.
> > >
> > > What happened to ALSA?
> > > Did anyone else have the same trouble?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > -- Chris
> >
> > alsa works fine here
> Alsa tends to break for some people with every major release, so manual
> fixing
> is needed.
> Alsa never worked perfectly and will not in the future, that is what i can
> tell ya from the past 5 years.
> greetings
> tpowa
> --
> Tobias Powalowski
> Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa)
> http://www.archlinux.org
> tpowa at archlinux.org
>

what is your suggestion instead of ALSA?