From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rimas Kudelis Subject: Re: More detailed Acer (Intel HDA) Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 10:48:13 +0200 Message-ID: <44210F4D.8070508@akl.lt> References: <200603220041.k2M0f8uA011967@auster.physics.adelaide.edu.au> <1142988679.4532.197.camel@mindpipe> <4420FB3E.3030804@akl.lt> <1143012964.1792.61.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1257; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1143012964.1792.61.camel@mindpipe> Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Lee Revell Cc: ALSA devel , Jonathan Woithe List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642