Re: More detailed Acer (Intel HDA)

[Rimas Kudelis <rq@akl.lt>]

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.

>> 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.
I would report a bug the next day I find it doesn't let me hear the CD 
i'm playing at all. Who would fix it? Because I would not.

OTOH, I just remembered I know one guy who has windows (hopefully, XP) 
on a similar notebook. Maybe he'll test it, if I catch him online. What 
app should he use for that?

Rimas



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