From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: Please add snd-ice1712 problem to "Known bugs" page Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 17:52:14 +0200 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: <2226-33676@sneakemail.com> <200309101206.h8AC6xW9005709@oud> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.5 - "Awara-Onsen") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200309101206.h8AC6xW9005709@oud> Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: Paul Davis Cc: Sam <4l8uie002@sneakemail.com>, Alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org At Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:06:59 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > > >Oh, oh... oh! I see! > > > >I was feeling the sinking "I'm getting 90% of functionality with Linux > >because hardware companies don't see the light yet, sigh" and now it's > >been replaced with the less frequent feeling of "the Linux version does > >it better. Yeah!" > > although it makes me happy to see you feeling this way, i felt > compelled to add that i'm not necessarily sure that the linux way *is* > better. its more flexible, that's true. but the two different > standards for "input maximum signal level" are just that - standards - > and the fader to control this makes it much harder to switch between > the two levels that all of my equipment uses. that's true - but i'd like to say that it's a design problem of mixer application, not the whole audio infrastructure. for my eyes, a good-looking, user-friendly and (still) fully functional mixer is the biggest missing feature on linux audio. it's quite hard to achieve a perfect "all-purpose" mixer. there is no such one on windows nor macos. each hardware vendor provides their own mixer application to control their cards fully. > > i'm just nitpicking really, we all love linux, once we get it > working :) hehe, working how well? :) Takashi ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf