Subject: Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: intel 8x0 went silent in 2.6.11
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Mark Canter <marcus@vfxcomputing.com>
Cc: Nish Aravamudan <nish.aravamudan@gmail.com>,
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Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 14:09:38 -0500
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On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 14:06 -0500, Mark Canter wrote:
> Correct, but if you want to use your headphones you would have to enable 
> headphones on your mixer, which would negate your speaker output through 
> your docking station's output.  If you want to use the docking station 
> speakers, you would have to disable the headphones in order to get the 
> docking station speakers to work; no?  If that is the case, then you would 
> still have to enable/disable each time you wanted to change the direction 
> of headphones/external speakers.  Again, this is not the case under <= 
> 2.6.10 where it works regardless of enabling/disabling headphones.
> 
> I'd hate to rant and rave here under something that has worked under 2.4.x 
> and <= 2.6.10.  But this seems like a very un-userfriendly solution to 
> something that has had no issues for quite some time.  In that case, what 
> deemed the change necessary?  As far as I see the 8x0 driver added support 
> for ICH7.  I'm sure there's more to it than just that, I just haven't 
> looked into it the rest of the way.

Because the change was needed to make someone else's hardware work.
It's a bug, bugs happen.

If you want to complain, complain to the hardware manufacturers, who
make devices where bit $foo means $bar in one hardware revision, and
$baz in the next, and don't give us sufficient documentation to sort out
the mess.

Lee

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