system-config-soundcard: why?

[Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek]

Dnia 26-03-2008, śro o godzinie 01:28 -0400, Dan Williams pisze:
> 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.

I've already filed some kind of feature request in ALSA's bugtracker
(next I'm registered in) and I'm going to ask on
video4linux-list at redhat.com today about bttv and my card autodetection.

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