On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 10:58:49AM +0200, Martin Stransky wrote:
>1) I'm supposed to pick a PCM device and know what the
difference is
> between:
> Intel 82801DB-ICH4
> Intel 82801DB-ICH4 - MIC ADC
> Intel 82801DB-ICH4 - MIC2 ADC
> Intel 82801DB-ICH4 - ADC2
> Intel 82801DB-ICH4 - IEC958
> intuitively? (Moreover, I'm asked to do this in two different places.)
These names depend on driver writer, if you don't know just use the
default. Optionally I can move it to some "advanced" settings.
Is there a case where a normal person would want the non-default?
>3) How is the user supposed to know whether to use kudzu, /proc,
or HAL
> detection? Why are they even *given* a choice???
>I'm failing to see what sort of usage case this is solving. Surely this
>should all just work?
It's because:
kudzu detects only internal cards (kudzu doesn't detect USB cards well),
[...]
Proc detects all cards fine, but it isn't "preferred"
and works only
when drivers are succesfully loaded.
[...]
HAL detects only cards with correct /sys entries (so it doesn't
detect
[...]
So, when HAL detects all devices fine, I'll remove
proc&kudzu.
Why not, in the meantime, do them all? Or do HAL first, and if that fails,
kudzu, and if that fails, proc? (Possibly with a "look for more" button?)
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