[linux-audio-dev] Re: [linux-audio-user] What parts of Linux audio simply suck ?

[Takashi Iwai]

At Sun, 19 Jun 2005 16:01:39 -0400,
Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> >    SOUNBLASTER LIVE MIXER:
> > 
> >    total mystery
> 
> This was never really an ALSA problem.  The confusion due to the large
> number of mixer elements is resolved with recent versions of alsamixer
> (by splitting the controls into Playback and Capture), and the Gnome
> 2.10 mixer now only displays the 4 or 5 most important controls by
> default.

Well, I find the current mixer abstraction isn't powerful enough, and
is too complex OTOH.  It's based on the old and gothic style of
mixture between OSS and older ALSA API.

> > , no master control etc.
> > 
> 
> I agree that this is still a bug.  Should be fixed in the next ALSA
> release.  Until then it's trivial to work around, and could in fact be
> solved 100% in the mixer apps.

I agree with redesign of the SB-live mixer components.  Or, an
addition of "master" control and hides many things in the mixer
abstration layer.

Anyway, the further discussion about this (sblive mixer) is too
ALSA-specific, IMO.  Better to move to alsa-devel ML...


Takashi