Comment 3 for bug 39007

Historiadores acreditam que,
em Terça 11 Abril 2006 18:22, Matt Zimmerman disse:
> The reporter of this bug seems to claim that it would allow these cards to
> work out of the box, which does not match my understanding

Ouch!

Just to be fair, that's not what I said.
Alsaconf really is not a tool to automagically configure those cards.

But is is indeed very useful to (try to) detect what kind of card the system
has, what are the files that need to be edited by the user and what the user
has to write on those files.

As suggested, alsaconf could be tweaked to (or replaced by a different tool
with the same name) not alter the modules, modules.conf and modprobe.d files,
and just spit "you have to do this and this to get yours soundcard working -
remember you have a very old and unsupported hardware, so you are on your
own" on the user screen.

The "same name" issue is just for historical reasons (people KNOW there is
something called alsaconf that do the trick). But we could put some message
(in red color?) informing something like "if your sound is working, you DON'T
have to run this tool" or "this tool is meant to help you configure very old
ISA sound cards" or something more elaborate.

Also, there should be some rework to actually disable all the PCI and ISA-PnP
detection of the current alsaconf and just leave it with the "brute force"
non-PnP routines.

I agree users must be discouraged to use alsaconf. It's just that, for the
sole purpose of configuring a very old non-PnP ISA sound card, it is still
very useful and the only tool around.

Again, sorry for my bad english. If I did sound a little harsh that was not my
intention.

As for non-PnP ISA sound cards to be unsupported, well, thel that to my old
faithfull Armada...

Keep the good work guys!
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Henrique Cesar Ulbrich
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