22 Jan
2004
22 Jan
'04
3:12 p.m.
On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 09:35, Florian Schmidt wrote:
Hi,
i heard on the #alsa irc channel, that some graphical mixer apps don't
treat the alsa mixer [ctl] devices not right. For example on a cs46xx
alsamixergui does not allow toggling capture on the "Capture" channel.
This would be required and is no problem with alsamixergui.
I wonder if other mixers have problems like this. This can be confusing
like Hell to newbies..
The hdsp driver (as I understand it) does not export the controls
necessary for alsamixer to work with these cards. Instead we use
hdspmixer, which is a much better mixer. Due to this difference if you
want to do the equivalent of alsactl restore with the hdsp series I
think you have to run a script with commands in it to set levels, or you
have to start X and run hdspmixer. For this reason it's a drag on my
system to keep scripts around for times when I do a remote reboot and am
not able to run hdspmixer.
Currentlt alsamixer and the hdsp family do not mix. (You decide if the
pun was intended.) ;-)