system-config-soundcard: why?

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Wed Mar 26 05:28:43 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 22:14 +0100, Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote:
> Dnia 25-03-2008, wto o godzinie 22:09 +0100, Hans de Goede pisze:
> > Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote:
> > > Dnia 25-03-2008, wto o godzinie 16:48 -0400, Bill Nottingham pisze:
> > >> So, why do we need this in the default install?
> > > 
> > > Does firstboot call s-c-soundcard? I didn't see it, when I was
> > > installing Fedora 8 (yesterday).
> > > 
> > > It can only do harm...
> > > 
> > > Esp. for my sound card with no options for modules supplied. My card
> > > needs ac97_quirk=2 and dxs_support=2 to get rid of "ear harm" when
> > > playing some sound(s).
> > > 
> > 
> > Please report this to the alsa project, they should be able to teach the driver 
> > to recognize your motherboard and set these options automatically.
> 
> You think so? And same should I do with my bttv driver?

Definitely; if you have to quirk your board with module options, those
quirks belong in the _driver_ so they happen automatically.

Dan





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