3 Dec
2004
3 Dec
'04
10:16 p.m.
On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 00:50 +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hallo,
Ryan Gallagher hat gesagt: // Ryan Gallagher wrote:
Thanks for that reply. The issue of setting the mixer above 50% =
silence aside, I've come the conclusion that a sw mixer isn't really
important to me (however I guess I could just plug the damn thing into a
mac and see what the "official" drivers provide).
-ry
So when I run good old alsamixer -c 1 or
gnome-alsamixer... I only get
one PCM fader and one MIC fader. Now this card has 2 ins and 6 outs.
Also if I raise the PCM fader to 100% I get no sound... bring it back
down to 50% and I get full volume.
But here's the real question:
Is there a mixer that I can use to control all ins and outs of this
card?
Many USB soundcards have no or crippled mixers onboard. What you see
in alsamixer very likely is all there is. From two USB cards I own,
the Quattro has no mixer at all, and the Terratec Aureon USB only has
one strip for its 2 input rsp. 6 output channels. Maybe your hardware
manual has some more info on what to expect from your card?
Not having mixer controls actually is not that big a deal. Every
decent audio software has software mixing, and personally I don't like
it, if something like xmms will destroy my fine tuned mixer settings
when changing mp3 volume. Ciao
--
Ryan Gallagher <ruinaudio(a)comcast.net>