2008/8/10 Russell Miller <duskglow@xxxxxxxxx>: > > > On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 11:01 PM, Russell Miller <duskglow@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >> On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Tom spot Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 18:43 -0700, Russell Miller wrote: >>> > What gets me is that it's an integrated soundchip. Usually those are >>> > pretty well supported, at least in basics. >>> >>> Out of curiousity, what soundchip is it? What does lspci say it is? What >>> kind of motherboard is it on? >> >> It's an Azalia on a AMD K9A Platinum. > > > OK, sorry guys, but I'm going to reply to my own post, because I just found > a perfect example of why I feel like the whole thing is going down the > tubes. > > I ran alsa-info. > > First it tells me that it's going to automatically upload the results to a > pastebin site, then it asks me if I want to continue to run the script. > Strike 1. It should have defaulted to no, and just ran. It's just > outputting info, there's no need to protect me from myself. > > Next, I run with the --no-upload option, cursing the damn thing out while I > do, and then it asks me again, do I want to run the script? Yeah I want to > run the script, I *typed the command*. What is it protecting me from??? > > So then, it runs, and outputs the data into a file. Into a *file*? WTF > happened to the unix idiom of sending things to stdout unless you > specifically give it a "-f" option? > > I know you guys don't write alsa. I'm not saying you're responsible for > this. What I am saying is that for a long time sysadmin like me, this is > really a step backwards. I just want to debug a fricking pulseaudio/alsa > problem. Don't protect me from myself when the worst that's going to happen > is that I get stuff printed to the screen that I don't care about. > > I haven't done a whole lot of exploration of Fedora 9 lately, I've been busy > at work with Centos. It is ALL like this??? This seems like very poor behavior, I hope you report it. -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list