Comment 4 for bug 39007

On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 10:21:03PM -0300, Henrique wrote:
> Historiadores acreditam que,
> em Terça 11 Abril 2006 18:22, Matt Zimmerman disse:
> > The reporter of this bug seems to claim that it would allow these cards to
> > work out of the box, which does not match my understanding
>
> Ouch!
>
> Just to be fair, that's not what I said.
> Alsaconf really is not a tool to automagically configure those cards.

You said that when you used the package from Debian testing, "it worked."
You left out the step where you manually configured the card using alsaconf.
:-)

> I agree users must be discouraged to use alsaconf. It's just that, for the
> sole purpose of configuring a very old non-PnP ISA sound card, it is still
> very useful and the only tool around.

I would be much happier with it if it did only this job, or otherwise
encouraged users to report bugs in cases where sound *can* work
automagically but doesn't (yet).

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 - mdz