Bug 92909 – Ambiguosity regarding usage of linux kernel drivers

• Product: [OLD] Docs-user
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Clock 2005-05-17 06:14:43 UTC]

"If you use a 2.6 kernel, you may use the drivers provided in the kernel, but we
still recommend that you use media-sound/alsa-driver"

It's not clear what is meant by "use media-sound/alsa driver".
Does it mean that I should install it now? Or that I shouldn't install it now
and read on and if I am offered the possibility to install it, then install it?
Or does it mean that I should change somehow my decisions on places in the guide
where the user is promted to make decision?

I suggest it would be explicitly stated what the user should do at this point.

Reproducible: Always
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Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130,
glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r5 i686)
================================================================= System uname:
2.6.11-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.50GHz Gentoo Base System
version 1.4.16 Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, May  4
2005, 16:17:52)] dev-lang/python:     2.3.5
sys-apps/sandbox:    [Not Present]
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.59-r6, 2.13
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r7
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.16
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env
/usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf
/etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer
-pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache
distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa apm arts avi
berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl emboss encode esd fam foomaticdb fortran
gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 guile imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 jack java jpeg kde ldap
libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis
opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline ruby samba sdl slang
spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff tls truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts
vorbis xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset:  ASFLAGS,
CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Jonathan Smith (RETIRED) 2005-05-17 06:56:30 UTC]

this bug is a dup of bug 92622. someone please mark it as such

[Comment 2 Xavier Neys (RETIRED) 2005-05-17 08:02:58 UTC]

New doc should clear it up

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 92622 ***