Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: intel 8x0 went silent in 2.6.11

Lee Revell
2005-03-04T04:26:26Z

On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 14:06 -0500, Mark Canter wrote:
> Correct, but if you want to use your headphones you would have to enable
> headphones on your mixer, which would negate your speaker output through
> your docking station's output. If you want to use the docking station
> speakers, you would have to disable the headphones in order to get the
> docking station speakers to work; no? If that is the case, then you would
> still have to enable/disable each time you wanted to change the direction
> of headphones/external speakers. Again, this is not the case under <=
> 2.6.10 where it works regardless of enabling/disabling headphones.
>
> I'd hate to rant and rave here under something that has worked under 2.4.x
> and <= 2.6.10. But this seems like a very un-userfriendly solution to
> something that has had no issues for quite some time. In that case, what
> deemed the change necessary? As far as I see the 8x0 driver added support
> for ICH7. I'm sure there's more to it than just that, I just haven't
> looked into it the rest of the way.

Because the change was needed to make someone else's hardware work.
It's a bug, bugs happen.

If you want to complain, complain to the hardware manufacturers, who
make devices where bit $foo means $bar in one hardware revision, and
$baz in the next, and don't give us sufficient documentation to sort out
the mess.

Lee