On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 01:16:05PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Sun, 28 Jan 2007 22:59:52 +0000, > Well, the ice1712 hardware is somehow strange. On this chip, both the > analog attenuation and the IPGA are connected with each other, and can > _not_ be controlled separately. That is, when you set analog > attenuation to non-zero, you cannot set IPGA at all. Similarly, if > you set IPGA non-zero, analaog attenuation must be zero. Hence, > recent implementation is the straightforward implementation from the > hardware perspective. If a single volume bar is implemented, does it leave the analog attenuation at zero and adjust the digital attenuation, or does it leave the digital attenuation at zero and adjust the analog attenuation? If I had to choose one or the other it would usually be the latter. Digital and analog attenuation are not the same in terms of quality, especially when the digital attenuation acts on integer samples as opposed to floating point. I can see the argument for making it simple for the non-technical user, but the quality level required by the pro/semi-pro user must still be attainable. Personally I'd rather see both sets of controls in the driver, even if only one volume bar appears in the mixer app. At least then there's still the option of controlling one or the other (even if it means patching envy24control ;-)). John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
