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

[Dieter Plaetinck]

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:11:03 +0200
Tobias Powalowski <t.powa at gmx.de> wrote:

> Am Donnerstag 25 Juni 2009 schrieb Jozsef:
> > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Tobias Powalowski <t.powa at gmx.de>
> > wrote:
> > > 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?
> There is no sugesstion, there is no sound framework working for all. 
> That's only my observation that sound is always broken for someone.
> greetings
> tpowa

You could also try OSS v4.
http://insanecoding.blogspot.com/2009/06/state-of-sound-in-linux-not-so-sorry.html
Note the special mention of Arch in there :)

Dieter