[mythtv] [PATCH] Add help text to audio device selection

Kenneth Aafløy ke-aa at frisurf.no
Fri Jun 25 20:23:31 EDT 2004


On Saturday 26 June 2004 01:07, Isaac Richards wrote:
> On Thursday 24 June 2004 09:25 pm, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> > This patch just adds some help text to the audio device selection.
[snip]
> I've been keeping the ALSA stuff out of the settings help since it really
> doesn't work properly.

I'm sorry to be against you on this, because 99,9% of the time you are right 
on! However, I belive that ALSA support is somewhat really close to what it 
should be, but that driver bugs usually push it back on the top10 list. 
Anyways, keeping the users from using it will also keep the few bugs from 
beeing discovered. I used the ALSA driver a lot a while back, and it was 
definatly working correctly for me, on the epia board.

What about a compromise to this patch, point the user to a new section of the 
extremly well managed documentation by Robert Kulagowski, where we could put 
a big fat warning telling the user that enabling this will probably lead to 
the user submitting a bug report, but that it'll never be finished without 
testing? And pointing them also to other resources which is related.

Kenneth


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