Re: fedora 9 pre release

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Gene Heskett wrote:
On Friday 18 April 2008, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
lostson wrote:
 Hey All
 I loaded the f9 pre release today and there is no system-config-soundcard
where has this gone ?
Removed. Refer

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-March/msg02148.html

If your sound card doesn't work out of the box, file a bug report.

Rahul

And for those of us who use the onboard sound for skype/ekiga/etc, and another GOOD pci card for everrything else, there should be a reminder to save ones modprobe.conf someplace safe, cuz I'll bet you a 12 pack f9 will screw that up royally. One size does not fit all, Rahul. Never will.

If by "screw up royally" you mean that given a choice of two sound cards and a video capture card which has only DMA sound and needs magic software to do anything, and chooses the TV card as "the" sound card... if that's what you mean, you're right.

Feels like Fedora is trying to be ubuntu, or Windows, and do everything for the user without asking. Clearly this is a philosophical issue, and removing the ability to make a choice with sound is not a "bug" but a "design decision for ease of use" and will be justified "to avoid confusing non-technical users."

I chose Fedora over other distros because I could configuring it without having to fight with defaults, and the system offered useful suggestions, not mandates. Then came NetMangler, and it took hours to really get that piece of crap not only removed but not missed by applications which reported "no network" if NM wasn't choosing which connections I could use. Now sound is gone, too? I haven't tried the beta, the alpha is on one machine with minimal sound hardware, and made a good decision to use the one card it found.

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