[linux-audio-user] newbie trying to record

[Reuben Martin]

>> Beyond that I can't help you much. SB cards are an absolute nightmare.
>> Perhaps somebody else on this list who has a SB card can offer more 
>> help. The Alsa Wiki can sometimes help.
>> 
>
>This is a well known problem.  The emu10k1 needs an hwdep mixer app,
>like on Windows.  It's just too complex for a generic mixer API.
>
>We get a lot of complaints about the mixer but not a lot of suggestions
>to improve it.  A good way to start it to open an ALSA bug report like
>"emu10k1: mixer sux0r" and suggest how we could improve it.


The Sound Blaster / Audigy, AC97, and Nvidia related cards or chips are becomming a real pain in the ass. Something needs to be done to make the configuration of these idiot proof. (Not that I'm calling anybody with said hardware an idiot.)  I try to help out people on the Gentoo Multimedia forums and there must be several posts a day reading something like "I can't get this POS audio device to work with Alsa".

Since most of the noobs to linux are comming from a windows background, wouldn't it help if the mixer app was modeled after the mixer app used for these cards / chips on windows? i.e. no learning curve. (maybe it already is, I've tried to stay away from them)

-Reuben



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