system-config-soundcard: why?

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 23:01 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:

> I am all for orphaning/removing/killing it now. A lot of bugs have
> been reported against PA which were actually /etc/modprobe.conf
> fuckups due to s-c-s. Even as a test program it is not particularly
> useful. It is obsoleted by all the udev hotplug fancyness. AFAICS
> there's not a single feature of it left that is not obsolete or even
> counterproductive.

I do find it a handy way to generate a repeated sound to test whether
there's been any progress on getting my Thinkpad volume control buttons
working (there hasn't, at least in F8), but (a) you might think that's a
counterproductive use 8^) and (b) I'm not advocating keeping it just for
that.

> 
> Lennart
> 
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                Matthew Saltzman

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