> So it wouldn't surprise me, since I've obviously gotten the colors wrong (or
> misread things) that most audio cards don't have a real line-out -- they
> just have a speaker-out.
I know for sure that most audio cards have either a headphone-out or a line-out (or both), and that speaker-outs are rare. Haven't seen one since the old SB16 days.
> However, I would like to ask you for some help: where would I lodge this as
> a request upstream? ALSA devs?
Yes, I think it is in the alsa-devel mailing list, where the decisions like these are made.
> So it wouldn't surprise me, since I've obviously gotten the colors wrong (or
> misread things) that most audio cards don't have a real line-out -- they
> just have a speaker-out.
I know for sure that most audio cards have either a headphone-out or a line-out (or both), and that speaker-outs are rare. Haven't seen one since the old SB16 days.
> However, I would like to ask you for some help: where would I lodge this as
> a request upstream? ALSA devs?
Yes, I think it is in the alsa-devel mailing list, where the decisions like these are made.