Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Apr 2003 22:34:34 -0400 | From | Ben Collins <> | Subject | Re: [Bug 623] New: Volume not remembered. |
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On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 10:29:05PM -0400, Pat Suwalski wrote: > Werner Almesberger wrote: > >So you're claiming that users will find it more difficult to add > >one line to rc.local than upgrading their kernel ? > > No. > > I believe he is saying that ever since 1984 and the Mac Plus, it has > been expected that sound works right away without adding any lines anywhere. > > I have not seen a computer in the last year and a half that has not had > either onboard sound or a card. It is very standard hardware these days. > Therefore, your soundcard should work just like your keyboard does. You > do not have to add any lines to any rc script to get the keyboard > working, do you? Sound should not have to be any different, in an ideal > world.
Sound may be a standard feature, but it does not get driven by a standard interface like PS2 or HID keyboards do. It's also not as straight forward as "sound or no sound". There's many different levels of sound hardware, from the 2-channel basic stereo, to the 6-way Dolby Digital 5.1.
Whether or not a line is needed in an rc script is really a shortcoming of userspace, IMO. It's the responsibility of userspace to setup the user's environment in the most friendly way.
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