On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 01:01:44AM -0500, Doug Ledford wrote: > It's also things like erratic output via PA versus smooth output via > analog input. This particular laptop pops and crackles every time the > PCM starts/stops, while analog signals are much cleaner. There's a patch in the rawhide kernel that may improve this, depending on your codec. You can also disable HDA power saving. > And it would be pretty easy to have a warn once dialog that tells > users that attempt to adjust the CD in volume that it may not have any > effect if the analog input isn't connected to the sound card or if the > cd playback software skips the analog input in favor of digital data > transfer. You could even ask users after an adjustment if the > adjustment made any difference, and if it didn't, you could remove it > from the UI. We have a solution that we know always works, and it has negligable cost. That's a much more straightforward design than one that has to attempt to explain to the user that depending on whether or not there's a specific piece of wire in their computer they may or may not hear something in the CD player. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list