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? -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
