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Bug#320860: hw-detect: Should support basic sound card detection



Hello David,

You did not send your comments to the bug report which means that they 
will most likely be forgotten. Anyway, that's fixed now...

On Tuesday 02 August 2005 10:32, David Goodenough wrote:
> The only problem with this is that many embedded systems come with
> sound systems, or at least appear to.  Many of the SOC based systems
> use chips that include sound support, but then do not provide the
> external connections to use it.  On those boards being used as network
> routers etc it would be something of a waste of limited Compact Flash
> space to  go installing sound support automatically.  Please can this be
> optional and not automatic, at least in expert mode.
> 
> I am not here talking about Emdebian style systems, but the sort of
> cards like the Microtik and PC Engines ones which are small PCs with
> Geode chips and CF disks.  Also the VIA MiniITX boards usually come with
> this kind of support which you may not want to use.

In the bug report I proposed a way to test for the presence of a sound 
card. Would embedded systems give "true" for that test?
Is there a test that could be used to exclude embedded systems?

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