[LAU] mute laptop speakers with Intel HDA

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 07:13:12PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:

> Then, well, you made it really too dramatic.  Requesting the update to
> the latest kernel is a very standard procedure.  Otherwise, the
> developer cannot start real debugging at all.

Not being a kernel/driver specialist at all, I do have some 
difficulty in believing this.

The kernel has to call some routines in the driver, and provide
some services to it. I find it difficult to imagine

- how a kernel bug could affect just one driver and have no 
  impact on all the others.
- that if there's anything wrong with these interfaces a system
  could work at all,

I assume most drivers are using the same interfaces to the
kernel, and the same services, and that these are relatively
stable.

But I could be completely wrong...

-- 
FA

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