Hi Lee; tnx for the absolutely reasonable question! On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:04:10 -0400 "Lee Revell" <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 8/10/07, John L. Utz III <john.utz@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > It does, i think that i'll try to use snd_ac97_rename_vol_ctl() in > > patch_vt1618() to make Surround the Rear control. > > > > Hopefully, i'll have a usable patch to submit for vt1618 next week, > > woohoo! > > Why do you want to rename Surround to Rear? It would cause people's > mixer settings to be lost. As of right now, i actually don't! :-) I did up until about 15 minutes ago tho! It wasn't my intent to change it generally, i only wanted to change it for the 1618. Peoples mixer settings wouldn't be lost, because the VIA1618 is currently near unusable under ALSA. Thus i receive regular pings from random linux loving 1618 owning netizens along the lines of: 'where's that patch john?' 'how soon will it be done?' :-) So, the reason for me to want to change it was to make it just like the CMI8738-MC6 Rear Output Softvol that i have created. That turns out to be a stupid idea, because CMI8738-MC6 is the thing that's not in sync with the current thought on how multichannel audio is laid out. :-) So i will rename that CMI8738 softvol to be Surround Playback Volume instead of Rear Playback Volume and send in a patch shortly. The reason for all this brain-churn is that i have to make our product work with both the CMI8738-MC6 and the VT1618. Because the CMI8738-MC6 is what we have on zillions of existing product in the field and the VT1618 is what's currently available. Keeping up with audio chipset EOL's while maintaining 100% product compatibility with 7 year old product that is *still* in the field is why i have a job :-) > Lee > _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
