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. Is there a case where a normal person would want the non-default? > >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), [...] > Proc detects all cards fine, but it isn't "preferred" and works only > when drivers are succesfully loaded. [...] > HAL detects only cards with correct /sys entries (so it doesn't detect [...] > So, when HAL detects all devices fine, I'll remove proc&kudzu. 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?) -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
