[LAU] hdsp not happy with recent kernels

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 14:08 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> > YMMV,
> 
> It does :-)
> In my experience "HwDep ioctl failed. Metering stopped" has been caused 
> by broken versions of hdspmixer (that was the case until very recently).

For Ubuntu Studio 11.10 the hdspmixer wasn't in the package alsa-tools,
resp. alsa-tools-gui. Perhaps at this times it was buggy? I had to
compile it myself.