Re: More detailed Acer (Intel HDA)

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

On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 10:48 +0200, Rimas Kudelis wrote:
> Hi,
> >>>> 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.
> >   
> It may or may not work. And people can still use the test model for testing.
> 

Yes exactly, and a missing control is much worse than a control that
does nothing.

There just needs to be some shred of evidence beyond my speculation
about the CD pins not being connected before controls are removed from a
driver.

Lee 



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