new s-c-soundcard in rawhide

[dragoran]

Matthew Miller wrote:
> 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.
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> Is there a case where a normal person would want the non-default?
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>>> 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), 
>>     
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>> Proc detects all cards fine, but it isn't "preferred" and works only 
>> when drivers are succesfully loaded.
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>> HAL detects only cards with correct /sys entries (so it doesn't detect 
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>> So, when HAL detects all devices fine, I'll remove proc&kudzu.
>>     
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> 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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this would be a good idea
something like no soundcard found should I try an other method to 
detect? yes -no