On 14-04-08 18:58, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Sun, 13.04.08 00:09, Rene Herman (rene.herman@xxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: >> I believe it can be concluded that there is no "generally good level". ALSA >> should ship /usr/share/alsa/cards/<card>.state files which at least lets a >> driver author decide on a sensible set of default mixer settings. > > Yet another file that needs to be maintained. I don't believe this would be a huge problem, but yes, it's a downside. > Why not export this data like all the other data from the kernel? That > way other apps (not just alsactl) could make use of this information. While I'm not particularly up on the issue, I believe controls which may be implemented completely in userspace means you definitely need to go through alsa-lib to get _possibly_ sensible results. Rene. _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel