On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 14:32, Randall J. Parr wrote:
>
>If the issue is mp3 support, you can just hop over to
freshrpms.net
>and get it there.
>
>
No I can't. That is, in fact, my point. Most of the
freshrpms.net stuff
requires ALSA, which requires kernel modules, which means I can no
longer "up2date" that system without breaking the sound, etc., etc.
I have tried, repeatedly to use
freshrpms.net stuff but have constantly
run into the above problems and/or conflicts with other stuff from other
repositories. Yes, I can rebuild them or build them from source but the
whirlpools seems to just spin faster then.
That's odd. I got *my* MP3 support from Fresh RPMs and I don't run ALSA.
Works just fine too. Granted, I did have to install *some* of the Fresh
RPMs ALSA packages, but the ALSA kernel was not one of them. I did it
all with their version of Synaptic - no problems at all.
I only recently switched to Fedora and even then, going between the two
was surprisingly simple. I thought it would be much worse than it was.
Also, kernel 2.6 uses ALSA, so we will all be using it sooner rather
than later.
Cheers,
Chris
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