3 Dec
2004
3 Dec
'04
4:52 p.m.
On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 14:24 -0600, Reuben Martin wrote:
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".
The SBLive is not a POS, it works well, but the mixer is a mess. The
AC97 and Nvidia cards I can't comment on.
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. 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)
Yes but this is harder than you think and requires time and a lot of
work.
Lee