On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Arthur Marsh wrote: > Bill Unruh wrote, on 2007-10-01 03:11: > >> The HDA is very widely used and abused. Every manufacturer seems to feel >> that they have to munge it into incompatibility themselves. Otherwise their >> engineers do not have enough to do. Alsa writers can only rush after them >> and try to sweep up the worst of the poop dropped from these out of control >> horses. > > William G. Unruh | Canadian Institute for| Tel: +1(604)822-3273 > Physics&Astronomy | Advanced Research | Fax: +1(604)822-5324 > UBC, Vancouver,BC | Program in Cosmology | unruh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Canada V6T 1Z1 | and Gravity | www.theory.physics.ubc.ca/ > > May I quote you on this for when people proclaim how good Intel is > towards Linux support for their hardware? It is not intel. It is the various laptop manufacturers that decide to improve things. Intel made their specs open to Linux developers, something the laptop manufacturers do not do often. > > Arthur (still looking for something[s] that is/are currently > manufactured and does/do everything the SB Live! 5.1 model 0220 does - > and more under Linux). > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-user mailing list > Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user > -- William G. Unruh | Canadian Institute for| Tel: +1(604)822-3273 Physics&Astronomy | Advanced Research | Fax: +1(604)822-5324 UBC, Vancouver,BC | Program in Cosmology | unruh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Canada V6T 1Z1 | and Gravity | www.theory.physics.ubc.ca/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user