The Great Pulseaudio Mixer Debate: a modest (productive) proposal

[Dr. Diesel]

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Callum Lerwick <seg at haxxed.com> wrote:

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>
> And once again you go on and on about "modern" and "these days", and are
> completely dismissive of "Right now" and "Yesterday".
>
> No one but you cares. End users want what they use now and have owned
> for years, to work and continue to work.
>
> I have a Vortex 2 sound card. It's *ten* years old now. It's PCI. It
> outputs four channels of 16-bit output. It's output quality is
> excellent. It has an optical output. It can mix and resample something
> like 32 channels *in hardware*. It has hardware 10-band digital EQ. And
> of course it can do HRTF in hardware but there's little chance of that
> ever getting supported at this point. :P (Do we even do HRTF in Fedora
> with "todays" MMX and SSE? No.)
>
> It's drivers are rock stable, and have been for years. Which is more
> than I can say for snd_intel8x0...
>
> Sound is an area where a ten year old card still matches or exceeds
> anything you end up with today. Sound is not a constant upgrade
> treadmill. Stop treating it like one.
>
>
+1


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