On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 05:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote; > It is natural for driver developers to think in terms of > chipsets, because that's how the drivers are written. But > users (the people doing all the whining) think in terms of > PRODUCTS. It's not an EMU10k1, it's a Creative SB Live! It's > not a via82xx, it's an ASUS A7V8X with onboard sound. etc. > If there were a database listing product name, model number, > driver, version, and functionality (much along the lines of > the linux-printing folks) I think that a lot of complaining > might be averted.
There used to be a whole load of great Linux hardware databases online that were invaluable resources for this. One by one they all shut down, for various reasons - AIUI chiefly the admin overhead. I haven't checked the situation recently. This is probably why the ALSA team never had their own list. There not being anything to take their place is definitely a large gap in the GNU/Linux world. All it needs is a PCI and USB device database - ie, the numbers provided by `lspci' and `lsusb' are the primary keys in the database. With these entries, allow people to submit success or failure reports for their hardware, along with the brand and model name they bought their card as, to help those who don't already have the hardware to get the device ID numbers off. Perhaps even allow for automated or semi-automated test results to be submitted and tallied up for prospective buyers to see what the masses are generally using. This is a task that does not require anything heavy like kernel development skills, just the time and patience of a web developer to take one of those old sites and put some life back into it. -- Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED] For even the strongest force will weaken with time, And then its violence will return, and kill it. - from the _Tao Te Ching_, chapter 30 ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
