On Sat, 2003-04-19 at 15:06, iain wrote:
On Sat, 2003-04-19 at 14:55, Bastien Nocera wrote:On Sat, 2003-04-19 at 14:45, iain wrote:On Sat, 2003-04-19 at 14:34, Bastien Nocera wrote:Output should be autodetected, and capplets scrapped. ("Just work")I think I've already given an example about why that doesn't work.And I've already explained that a hidden configuration option was good enough for those 1% that need to work around crappy drivers, or bugs in the sound output plugins/frameworks.I said it wasn't a driver issue or a bug in the sound output plugins/frameworks. Its a simple case that my soundcard simply does not handle certain (common) audio formats.
So that's either a bug in the driver, that doesn't advertise correctly which formats are supported, or in the framework for not testing properly if these formats are supported.
Other reasons why a capplet might be useful, given a system with OSS, Alsa, ARTS, ESD, MAS installed, how does one automagically decide which to use?
That's another discussion altogether... On a GNOME/Linux platform, it would properly test for the presence and current use of the sound servers, then ALSA, then OSS. xine plugins use "priorities" for that. Cheers -- Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>
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