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Re: debian 10.1



Didier Spaier, le sam. 07 sept. 2019 21:36:52 +0200, a ecrit:
> See attached pic. In this case the virtual sound cards were chosen with
> this option:
> -soundhw es1370,ac97
> So having an Intel HDA among the cards or not doesn't change the
> behavior.

Well, yes, in both case there are several cards, so the installer has to
propose the choice to the user.

> Having not looked at the script this time, I don't know if it:
> 1. loops to check that there is only one sound cards before
>    using it

Yes. It waits a bit, in case the card it saw is not the only one, and
others just need a bit more time to show up.

> Anyway, the aforementioned message looks confusing, even if
> not spoken.

I have now turned it into 
Found 2 audio cards, waiting for $S more seconds for any other card...

> "without asking when there is only one" (which is expected).

Ok :)

> (and anyway the script should know already that there is only one card
> if I understand well).

It can't be sure, that's the problem, because hardware detection
nowadays is completely asynchronous, there is no such thing as "I have
finished detecting hardware", a USB device might show up really late for
instance.

Samuel


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