On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 01:01 -0500, Doug Ledford wrote:
On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 06:40:12AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 12:29:36AM -0500, Doug Ledford wrote:
>
> > That reading in the data digitally uses non trivial amounts of PCI and
> > CPU bandwidth. If I can't hear the difference between the two modes,
> > then that CPU usage is a total waste of resources. I have other things
> > I want my CPU to be doing.
>
> If 150K/sec is non-trivial PCI bandwidth, I think you should probably
> ask for a refund on your motherboard. From a power management point of
> view I'd like to agree that offloading this from the CPU is a good
> thing, but Lennart's right - most newly built machines don't hook these
> up, and adding a control that influences CD volume on a small number of
> machines and does nothing whatsoever on a larger number isn't a sensible
> UI optimisation.
It's also things like erratic output via PA versus smooth output via
analog input.
What the hell? How is 'PA versus analog input' a remotely sensible
opposition? How are those things even related?
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