At Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:51:31 +0100, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > > John L. Utz III wrote: > > It appears to me that these functions are attempting to work on all of > > the channels at once instead of just choosing Master, Front, Rear, > > Surround, or what have you: > > Yes, the "Master" control is one control with eight channels. > > > this leads to a rather awkward result in alsamixer where there are 5 > > volume controls called "Master": > > > > < Master > Master Master Master Master > > > > IMHO, it would be more desirable for them to say: > > > > < Master > Front C/LFE Surround Rear Surr > > Yes. > > Alsamixer chooses to display an eight-channel control this way. This > can be considered a bug in alsamixer. The current ALSA mixer abstraction splits the multi-channels into separate paired channels. But alsamixer can't show the channel name due to its UI design. And I guess other mixer apps don't handle them properly, too (who would care?). A solution would be make individual control like "Front", and create a virtual master control. Takashi _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
