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| -rw-r--r-- | perl-install/harddrake/sound.pm | 28 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/perl-install/harddrake/sound.pm b/perl-install/harddrake/sound.pm index 59c0b68ba..0464c7eb4 100644 --- a/perl-install/harddrake/sound.pm +++ b/perl-install/harddrake/sound.pm @@ -148,21 +148,39 @@ sub do_switch { sub switch { my ($in, $device) = @_; my $driver = $device->{driver}; + $driver = modules::get_alias($driver) if $driver =~ /sound-card/; # alsaconf ... my $alternative = get_alternative($driver); if ($alternative) { my $new_driver = $alternative->[0]; if ($new_driver eq 'unknown') { $in->ask_warn(_("No alternative driver"), - _("There's no known OSS/ALSA alternative driver for your sound card (%s)", - $device->{description})); + _("There's no known OSS/ALSA alternative driver for your sound card (%s) which currently uses \"%s\"", + $device->{description}, $driver)); } elsif ($in->ask_from(_("Sound configuration"), - _("Here you can select an alternative driver (either OSS or ALSA) for your sound card (%s)", - $device->{description}), + _("Here you can select an alternative driver (either OSS or ALSA) for your sound card (%s).", + $device->{description}) . + _("\n\nYour card currently use the %s\"%s\" driver (default driver for your card is \"%s\")", ($driver =~ /^snd-/ ? "ALSA " : "OSS "), $driver, $device->{driver}), [ { label => _("Driver:"), val => \$new_driver, list => $alternative, default => $new_driver, sort =>1, format => sub { my %des = modules::category2modules_and_description('multimedia/sound'); "$_[0] (". $des{$_[0]} . ')' - }, allow_empty_list => 1 } + }, allow_empty_list => 1 }, + { + val => _("Help"), disabled => sub { }, + clicked => sub { + $in->ask_warn(_("Switching between ALSA and OSS help"), + _("OSS (Open Source Sound) was the firt sound API. It's an OS independant sound API (it's availlable on most unices systems) but it's a very basic and limited API. +What's more, OSS drivers all reinvent the wheel. + +ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) is a modularized architecture which +supports quite a large range of ISA and PCI cards.\n +It also provides a much higher API than OSS.\n +To use alsa, one can either use: +- the old compatibility OSS api +- the new ALSA api that provides many enhanced features but requires using the ALSA library. +")) + } + } ])) { return if ($new_driver eq $driver); |