[Alsa-user] Problem with ALSA on kernel 2.4.19

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Many thanks to everybody for the help and interest.

Bob Lockie writes:
> Why do people even try the v5 version?
> This is not the first person.

The answer is disarmingly simple:   The ALSA home page 'alsa-project.org' 
itself:

N.B. The 0.5.x series is considered deprecated and is no longer supported by 
ALSA _developers_  (the emphasis is mine).
Latest Software Releases:
Package	                Driver	        Library	        Utilities	
Stable release	        0.5.12a	        0.5.10b	        0.5.10		
Development release	0.9.0rc6	0.9.0rc6	0.9.0rc6

People not developer by trade (such a I), they go naturally (and IMHO, 
unimpeded, by the way ALSA has worded this announcement) to the "Stable 
release".  Like when you go for a car, you tend to rather choose a stable one 
over the one in development release  :-)

> Where are the old versions coming from?

Same place as the 0.9.0rc6: follow the link 'Download' to /pub/driver,lib,utils 
respectively!

> The official homepage seems clear.
Without being (too) defensive, needles to say I feel good that I'm "not the 
first person" to read the "clear" note the other way around :-) 

Hope you believe I do share your frustration fully, based on the amount of 
effort and time I wasted on this wild goose chase.

Thanks again,
-- Alex