On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 14:06 -0500, Mark Canter wrote: > Correct, but if you want to use your headphones you would have to enable > headphones on your mixer, which would negate your speaker output through > your docking station's output. If you want to use the docking station > speakers, you would have to disable the headphones in order to get the > docking station speakers to work; no? If that is the case, then you would > still have to enable/disable each time you wanted to change the direction > of headphones/external speakers. Again, this is not the case under <= > 2.6.10 where it works regardless of enabling/disabling headphones. > > I'd hate to rant and rave here under something that has worked under 2.4.x > and <= 2.6.10. But this seems like a very un-userfriendly solution to > something that has had no issues for quite some time. In that case, what > deemed the change necessary? As far as I see the 8x0 driver added support > for ICH7. I'm sure there's more to it than just that, I just haven't > looked into it the rest of the way.
Because the change was needed to make someone else's hardware work. It's a bug, bugs happen. If you want to complain, complain to the hardware manufacturers, who make devices where bit $foo means $bar in one hardware revision, and $baz in the next, and don't give us sufficient documentation to sort out the mess. Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
