James ha scritto: > for example in /usr/src/linux/sound/pci > I see this driver: > intel8x0.c > > Looking at the comments in the driver: > ALSA driver for Intel ICH (i8x0) chipsets > This code also contains alpha support for SiS 735 chipsets provided > by Mike Pieper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. We have no datasheet > for SiS735, so the code is not fully functional. > > > Now you see that the one company chooses not to publish their data > on a particular chipset (this is the root of trouble for linux) > *assholes* only publish their specifications to large clients > Often even those clients have to sign very restrictive documents > about their (Intellectual Property) so the data is not published. > As much as possible, you want to search out these details, particularly > related to the key interfaces/features you want of a given mobo.
Wow. I didn't ever thought of digging the kernel sources. Linux has become too easy, if it's 3-4 years I'm using it and I've never had the need for digging kernel sources! :D Thanks for the great tip. >> Sad truth. Things like a university campus etc. are just dreams for us. >> When we watch a movie like "Animal House", we simply don't understand. >> The movie is fun etc. but the whole environment for us is alien. > > Well, at least you still have some industry in Europe. Being in America, > as an engineer, I do not know a single engineer that is encouraging their > children into engineering here in the US. Welcome to globalization. The > elites get richer and the middle class of the (industrialize world) > loose their jobs.... Very sad here stateside. I was just talking to > a mechanical engineerthe other day, he's running a hotdog stand.... Well, not that here is much different. Scientific faculties are more and more drained of students. The funny thing is that there is still a decent job market for whose doing engineering, or physics, or biotechnology: but kids are totally demotivated to do it. They are just spoiled: their line of reasoning is basically, why spending 5 years of your life studying "hard" things like physics or chemistry when you can study much easier Arts or Literature and have fun in the middle? The real trouble here is for people who want to pursuit the academic career. Nearly anyone has to go abroad -I was blocked here in Italy for the ph.d. by personal reasons, but I'll leave as soon as possible. Wages are ridicolous (maximum ever is 1500 Euros/month), contracts are extremly precarious and the work is frustrating due to the lack of research financing and the terrible state of infrastructures (both physical and bureaucratic). The chances of becoming a professor are slim to none and the process requires much more time than abroad (no one is a professor here before his/her 50s). The feeling everyone has in research in Italy is: we're on a sinking ship and we have to flee no matter how. Italy's scientific production, strangely, is of relatively good quality and even quantity nonetheless. The reasons are mostly two: the scientific graduates are often of good quality and people staying here for research must be *really* motivated. > Hey, come on, they do not need instruments in Italy...All of those beautiful > singing voices, ripe with wine and romantic passion for any female that > happens to walk by.....I spent a few summers in europe on the trains > and even stayed in dorm rooms in Rome... Wonderful summer, lots of > young beautiful skirts to chase..... be happy, find a girl and share > a bottle of wine.... Lol. I prefer Nordic countries however. I just came back from a holiday in Sweden. Scandinavia or Canada is where I'd love my home. > gotta make the best of the situation.... > Most of the best engineers I know, grew up poor, became angry about > their circumstances, and did something about it. Heck, you're right. >>> Make sure the old gear is impedance matched >>> on the speakers and the speakers are impedance matched or compatible >>> with the audio card (mobo chip).... > >> Oh, ok. That's something I didn't know about. I'll ask about how does it >> work... > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impedance_matching > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_impedance > http://www.hometoys.com/htinews/feb04/articles/polk/impedence.htm Thanks a lot! > PS from what you have said, you just might want to keep hacking away > at your existing system and read up on new hardware until you are > confident in your purchase. Yes. There's also the issue that I'll leave my country in a year or so, so maybe I'll have to think about it there. Thanks really much. M. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
