Staying with Hardy

[Ric Moore]

On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 22:15 -0400, Irving Leonard wrote:
> El Tuesday 06 October 2009 09:52:50 pm Ric Moore escribió:
> > On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 21:45 +0200, Knapp wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > With Karmic I just set the Desktop to use the old style menu and it
> > > > operates pretty much like KDE3. I have no beef with it now ...other
> > > > than the old saw about pulseaudio and phoron all heaped between me and
> > > > alsa. I just unloaded the packages that wouldn't rip out the rest of my
> > > > install and I'm happy as a clam. Ric
> > >
> > > I don't mean to thread jack but what packages are those? I might need
> > > to know in a month.
> > >
> > > Why don't you like Pulseaudio and Phoron (whatever that is)?
> >
> > I kept having sound stutter problems with OpenGL games, when the system
> > is being maxed out. Can't have that!! Monsters could sneak up on me and
> > I wouldn't hear them. Just won't do and isn't Cricket. I just love
> > Sauerbraten and Warzone2100. Sometimes I just have to blow stuff up.
> maybe you should read this 
> http://insanecoding.blogspot.com/2009/06/state-of-sound-in-linux-not-so-sorry.html 
> and then give this https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenSound a try.

Good links! I used OSS back when there wasn't anything else for
soundcards other than what was available in the kernel. OSS was the only
game in town for builtin sound cards. I paid the $10 for a lifetime of
support and long since lost my registration number. Hannu aways answered
email. Thanks! So far, I'm happy with just alsa. :) Ric