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Re:I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers by ofalkaed on Sunday February 15, 2026 @03:57AM (#47022166)
2.6 was also the switch from OSS to Alsa, which caused some fun, Alsa really was not ready for prime time.
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Re:I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers by VorpalWay on Sunday February 15, 2026 @04:12AM (#47022259)
Oh yeah, you just unlocked a forgotten memory. I was actually lucky there, I had a SoundBlaster Live 5.1 which worked just fine on ALSA (hardware mixing even worked out of the box). But I remember lots of other people complaining on IRC about it.
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Re:I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers by doubled112 on Monday February 16, 2026 @07:19PM (#47042089)
And once ALSA was working pretty well for me, PulseAudio came too soon.
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