On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 23:02, Thierry Vignaud wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > current fix has the advantage of working for quite some cards. > > > > I *think* there are much more cards without this analog output jack, > > than with one. But if anyone on the list has one, please speak up. I > > also do not own digital speakers, so I do not know what effect of > > this setting is on those. > > this is difficult to guess without market shares of sound cards, % of > their users who use linux, % of who use mandrake, % of alsa users vs > oss ones, ... > > what i believe is that this quirk will work fine for some models that > covers quite a lot of users. > eg: i810 and its derived models (ie nforceX chipsets) are quite common > (i think that nvidia got 30-40% of mb sales (mainly cheap ones of > course) with it). > > let's look the fact: sb live & the like are more expensive models, > less common[1] > > lacking knowledge, the only thing we're sure is that some part of sb > live users will have problems :-(
And remember, we're not actually talking about a REGRESSION here, are we? Previously, when you boot up with any card and ALSA drivers, you get absolutely no sound at all and to fix it you run a mixer. Now, when you boot up with many cards you'll get fine sound. When you boot up with an SB Live! and four speakers you may only get sound from two, and to fix this you run a mixer. This is by no means any worse than the previous situation... -- adamw
