Re: [ALSA - driver 0000901]: The onboard audigyls chip on msi k8 diamond motherboard not recognized. Path supplied.

[Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>]

On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 11:53 +0000, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 01:21 +0100, bugtrack@alsa-project.org wrote:
> > 
> >>*nods*, seems to be better:
> >>
> >>0 [CA0106         ]: CA0106 - CA0106
> >>                     Live! by MSI [SB0438] at 0xde00 irq 233
> > 
> > 
> > Since it's been established that the CA0106 based devices have basically
> > nothing in common with the SBLive/emu10k1, can we please, please not
> > call it "Live!"?  It's obvious from Creative's marketing that they want
> > to pass those cheap "software soundcards" off as equivalent to an
> > SBLive/Audigy.  Please, let's not help them.
> > 
> > Lee
> > 
> 
> I have made the comment line as exact copy of the Creative marketing as 
> possible, so that people can provide better feedback.
> E.g. I see [SB0438] and know exactly which card the user has and the 
> "Live! by MSI" tells the user exactly what they have, and it should 
> match the box the sound card came in for easy identification.
> 
> In this case, the CA0106 is part of the motherboard.
> I suppose I could replace "Live! by MSI" with "MSI motherboard XYZ"
> 
> I will ask the bug reporter for that information.

OK, makes sense.  Looks like users will be confused for the forseeable
future, but there's not a lot we can do.

Lee



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