On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:30:16AM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:26:36 +0100, > Andreas Mohr wrote: > > AFAICS, things should ideally work this way: > > plug USB adapter, ALSA uses its default USB-Audio.conf settings (just like > > with several other PCI and such cards), then for devices with non-existing > > H/W volume (and only those!!), automatically and generically provide ALSA > > softvol. > > The "automatically" is easy to write but hard to achieve the guarantee > to work with all possible devices :) > > Especially the mixer name of usb-audio is determined dynamically by > guess from usb descriptors, covering all possible names is no easy > task. Oh well, I'm not entirely up to what you're indicating here, but at least I do have some diversity, via two very different adapters (one 5.1 / H/W softvol, one not), and thus I should be able to draw some conclusions. Thanks! Andreas Mohr _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
