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Re: new s-c-soundcard in rawhide: msg#00008

Subject: Re: new s-c-soundcard in rawhide
Le lundi 03 juillet 2006 à 13:12 -0400, Matthew Miller a écrit :
> On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 04:01:44PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > Any user which needs non-stereo output (5.1 DVD sound...) will need to
> > wade through the non-defaut settings (with the cryptic alsa naming). In
> > those cases the default may not even be plugged anywhere.
> 
> Hmmm. In that case, maybe something more directly explanatory than just
> "advanced" -- and maybe pointers to the documentation appropriate for that
> card? At least until something more magical can happen...

It's not just "that card". Pretty much every alsa driver I've seen
exports I/Os as cryptic labels, and no one ever bothered to map then to
human-readable labels. Hell sometimes when you ask on alsa lists alsa
people defer to whoever wrote the driver because they're not able to
deduce function from naming themselves (that's what you get from
revelling in being close to the hardware and forgetting the user view)

This is a disaster waiting to happen. XFree86 modelines and other black
magic all over again.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot

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