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[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 06:33:13PM -0500, David J Patrick wrote:
> because Lennart must be busy ;-)

My wife was working on an assignment, and was using my computer to do it
(running remote X sessions to university).  So I wasn't checking email
at all.

> Chris I think you are (dare I say it) going about it in a Windoze way. 
> You should be able to find any of the basic stuff (like alsa) in your
> listed source repositories and install what you need via apt-get (or
> synaptic) Unless you know what your doing (which you will, eventually)
> hunting down .debs and running dpkg, is not the best way, and will leave
> your system out of sync and hard to maintian. If it's not in your source
> repositories, then far better to add needed repositories to
> /etc/apt/sources.list . then run "sudo apt-get update" then run "apt-get
> upgrade" then run "apt-get install foo" . You may well be able to get what
> you need by enabling source repositories already in your existing sources.list
> file, by "uncommenting" lines (remove leading "#" in the file, oh, while
> your in there, you should ADD a "#" to the beginning of the line that
> references the CDrom, telling apt-get not to look for sources on the CD)

Tha alsa version in ubuntu is too old for his card it seems.

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