Colin Guthrie wrote: > Takashi Iwai wrote: >> At Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:13:16 +0100, >> Colin Guthrie wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Just trying to help a user with a problem and it seems to be down to the >>> fact that his SB Audigy LS does not have a "Master" or "PCM" mixer control. >>> >>> I asked Lennart about this and he told that Takashi said he wanted to >>> make sure that all devices have at least a Master vol control. >>> >>> This one doesn't! >>> >>> Please let me know what you need in order to fix this. >>> >>> This is with 1.0.17... I can't see anything in the changelog that would >>> suggest this is fixed in the 1.0.18rc1. >> Did you update *driver*? Updating alsa-lib won't fix the problem. > > Yeah I made sure the user was on a 1.0.17 *driver* confirmed via > /proc/asound/version (he was originally confused about lib and driver > versions but I corrected him there already!) > >> The recent ca0106 driver has a virtual master control, so this should >> have been fixed. > > Cool, thanks. Is that post 1.0.17? From you comment about updating the > driver, I suspect it was supposed to be in 1.0.17 (/me looks) hmm yes: > > http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Changes_v1.0.16_v1.0.17#CA0106_driver > > > This is odd. I definitely requested that the user ensure the driver > version is 1.0.17 (he confirmed it by /proc/asound/version) and then run > amixer -c 0 to output the previously attached dump (which does not have > a Master). I've confirmed the user is using 1.0.17. The kernel is 2.6.27rc(something). So perhaps the driver is missing something for certain hardware? His PCI Ids are: lspci -nn | grep -i aud 00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Creative Labs SB Audigy LS [1102:0007] Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/] _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel