Mel Thompson

My Sound Card Rant to OS Distro Developers

One could understand if the major Linux OSs hadn't had time to fix this bug.
However, if one studies closely, one notices that Fedora and other major
distros just can't get it together with even the most popular and widely
distributed sound cards. I mean, it's cool that volunteers are producing
great results on so many fronts, but cats, this is not rocket science. We
need a Fedora Sound Project apparently, where folks need to compile a
list of popular sound cards, past and present, and then have some module
to reload the old sound card patches into any new distro, and then add the
few new major sound cards that have come out since then. I mean, it's just
weird that folks are coming up with new upgrades all the time and just somehow
can't ever get around to getting sound to work. Paradoxically, they often get
video working. There's a hangup, a kind of glitch, or hole, a big one, in the
development process, where, somehow, the same disconnect on the basic
sound card issue gets overlooked with each new upgrade. Theory: Before
doing an upgrade, take time to fix the sound card issues. In the last month
I've sampled a dozes Distros, and so far only SUSE can pull it together with
sound, and then only in the very latest distro, and then basically no one
else really can. (And note, even with Debian, who I admire greatly, sound
simply just doesn't come on, except oddly, when one tries to load Sound
Juicer disk player. Weirdly, Sound Juicer will find the sound card and turn
it on, then after that Linux will pick up on it.) Wake up call: Anyone out there
at Fedora? People have been pleading with you for years. Each distro
has the same problem, as though the topic never came up. Next time, skip
all the work on the prettier splash pages and get the sound turned on.

I remain,

Eternal Newbie.

paintba||er

I find it funny when people complain about, and demand things from something that they are getting completely free.

"this is not rocket science. "
Then why not get it started? You complain about what other people aren't doing, and comment on its difficulty level, yet you aren't doing anything.

Anyway, if it works in one distro, then I'm sure it can in another also, it may just take a little extra configuration.

Oxygen

tl;dr

Go home troll.

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