Re: More detailed Acer (Intel HDA)

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

On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 09:22 +0200, Rimas Kudelis wrote:
> Good morning,
> >> On these Acer laptops the evidence thus far indicates that there is no
> >> audio connection between the CD drive and the sound card. 
> >>     
> >
> > I haven't seen any evidence at all, just speculation, apparently no one
> > is willing to try Windows to verify this.  Until there's some evidence
> > IMHO the CD control should stay.
> The fact is that the CD control doesn't work now. And I didn't manage to 
> find a way to make any control in the test model influence CD playback 
> volume. Why would you want a non-working control to stay?
> 

Because it may work on some other laptops, and it's better for people to
be able to test it.

> I actually wanted to test everything on Windows, and was going to 
> install it to my linux swap partition temporarily, but I only had an XP 
> compact disc and it said the partition is too small by.... err.... 14 
> megabytes... :D, so I didn't install it there.
> 
> I thought we've agreed it's impractical to play CD's at 1x speed on a 
> notebook, so I don't see a problem at all. However, if somebody would 
> test the CD playback in windows with appropriate software on such 
> notebook, it would be nice.

That was just speculation on my part about why the vendor may have left
the CD connection disabled, but we don't know that's the case.  Until we
have more information the control should stay.

Lee



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