[linux-audio-dev] Re: image problem [was Re: [Alsa-devel] hel p for a levelmeter]

[STEFFL, ERIK (SBCSI)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter L Jones [mailto:peter at drealm.org.uk]
> On Tuesday 22 Oct 2002 20:27, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> > Peter wrote:
> >  >All these things just make life _easier_. I want to get on with
> >  >developing code, not wondering why my hardware isn't performing. I
> >  >don't _want_ to have to learn _that_ part of the system. 
> Because I'll
> >  >only need to do it once:
> >  >when I spec the next machine. (The next time I spec a machine,
> >  >everything I found out last time will be out of date.)
> >
> > This is a good idea to have this support and you've picked the right
> > thread for asking for it. Currently there are only a 
> handful of people
> > who have worked on the official ALSA docs. I have done 90% 
> of the work
> > myself. It's great I'm learning heaps in the process and 
> will definitely
> >   think about how to make it possible to add the info you require.
> >
> > Unfortunately we don't often get success stories on the 
> ALSA lists so we
> > don't really know how well things work until someone says that it's
> > broken :(
> 
> Heh. the life of a software developer.  You only get fault 
> reports and feature 
> requests (that need to be delivered yesterday) :-).

  actually I think it would be of great value to document the failures -
from alsa web site (and even reading alsa-user mailing list) you might be
under impression that sound blaster live platinum works fairly well, the
truth is that it doesn't work really well (for what I want to use it for -
external midi doesn't really work, rca connectors are dead (last time I
checked)).


	erik