Finally managed to install

[Shawn]

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:45:29 +0200, Martin Pitt
<martin.pitt at canonical.com> wrote:
> Hi Shawn!
> 
> On 2004-09-20 10:18 -0500, Shawn wrote:
> > > We will eventually switch to ALSA completely to fix these bugs.
> >
> > I'm somewhat confused by this as my Ubuntu system seems to use Alsa by
> > default... ?
> 
> I expressed myself wrong. I meant that we will disable and don't use
> the OSS emulation of ALSA any more and will try to convince all
> programs to use the ALSA interface.

I hope not, remember ALSA isn't available on anything but Linux
distributions (afaik). As such, some programs still only support the
OSS interface, because unlike ALSA it actually works on other *nix
platforms (such as FreeBSD). I know the number of those programs is
dwindling, but...

It's just really annoying to me that everyone think's ALSA is so
great, and then they forget that it's not available for our other Unix
friends :(