On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 12:19, Eric Fernandez wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: > > >I don't like it. In most cases, it would be a needless extra step, and > >could well cause confusion. I think the current ploy of just trying to > >get the right default for each piece of hardware is correct. > > > > > Why make it a supplementary step ? > At the end of the install, there is table with all detected devices and > for each one, a configuration button, despite the installer indicates a > default setting. It is already the case for the graphics card and the > network. For the sound card, you would press "configure", then it would > play a song, do you hear it ? "yes" -> let's continue "no" -> it tries > the other driver. A user, even newbie, is not dumb, when things are > explained the simple way : step 1 : OSS, do you hear sound ? step 2: > Alsa : do you hear sound ? I think it is not confusing and on the > contrary a good way to deal with particular hardware that could not be > tested. And it would not be a supplementary step, just the new feature > of the "Configure" button. > > Moreover, this could be integrated to soundrake : make it clearer about > the two kinds of driver and offer a testing procedure for sound.
Okay, that sounds better. Still not 100% sure it's necessary, but I certainly wouldn't complain about it. -- adamw
