ALSA and Gnome

I haven't been able to compile a kernel that avoids the shambles of ALSA 
and so sound events under Gnome don't work.  I guess a silent machine is 
  a more sensible model anyway but it does bother me that I can't, if I 
were to want to, have sound events because of the ALSA-shambles.  What a 
(explitive) stupid concept...

Of course, sound works everywhere otherwise -- as, responsibly, the 
sound and multimedia programs I tend to use have not been so deeply 
infected by the ALSA virus that I can't get around them by simply 
directing output to a sound device.  I think it's a terrible shame that 
the beauty of the Unix concept is being damaged by the introduction of 
what seems to be unnecessary and incompetently realized intervening 
layer of software.  We don't need ALSA if we can direct to sound devices 
and we can!... or always could in the past.  That ALSA-think intervenes 
into such a tidy concept actually disgusts me.





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