On Sunday 26 April 2009 16:15:17 Lennart Poettering wrote:
Uh. We certainly can get rid of them. Many of the more modern HDA
designs got rid of the entire volume control logic and instead
increased the PCM bit depth to 24 bit everywhere of which the usual 4-8
bit headroom can be used for volume control. In ALSA these are all
those devices where the 'softvol' module does volume control.
Sure, that's great. But why can't you see that I'm not going to run out and
buy
a new sound card (with less functionality than my existing one) just because
you declare it's "obsolete"?
This is what is the most unbelievable thing. You won't understand that some
people don't have the financial resources to go replace everything NOW. And not
all fedora installs are being done on brand new hardware. I for one am stuck
with what I have in my workplace for quite some time, very few companies would
upgrade it just because I complain that PulseAudio can't support it ;o)