Sound driver autodetection

[chrismorgan at rcn.com]

So the external tool would try to load each driver and put the detected one into the appropriate location in the registry?

Chris


> 
> From: Eric Pouech <eric.pouech at wanadoo.fr>
> Date: 2003/01/07 Tue PM 05:09:02 EST
> To: cmorgan at alum.wpi.edu
> CC: wine-devel at winehq.com
> Subject: Re: Sound driver autodetection
> 
> chrismorgan at rcn.com wrote:
> > I've been thinking about implementing sound driver autodetection in wine.  On startup wine would try to open a device with each of the drivers until one was opened successfully.  This seems pretty simple to implement, I was wondering if there was a dynamic way of detecting the list of drivers to try or whether this list would have to be hardcoded in a c file.  Eric, any hints?
> 
> I don't think this belongs to wine. What we could need is:
> 1/ an external tool that lists all available drivers
> 2/ then creates the corrects initialization of the registry. this would 
> also include defining the default driver
> 3/ then all MM DLLs would get their configuration from the registry
> 
> of course, 1/ will get complicated with different wine drivers outputing 
> to the same physical device, but we could infer some of the rules here
> 1 & 2 could be implemented as a control panel (for better user 
> performance), but also as a pure command line tool so that it can be 
> invoked at wine initialisation (at least for 2/)
> 
> as a matter of fact, I already have 3/ implemented, but never committed 
> it because of the lack of 1&2
> 
> A+
> -- 
> Eric Pouech
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