At Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:51:55 -0400, Alistair Boyle wrote: > > 2009/9/17 Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>: > > At Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:25:22 -0400, > > Alistair Boyle wrote: > >> > >> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > At Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:18:11 -0400, > >> > Alistair Boyle wrote: > >> ... > >> >> 2. It should be the "capture" control that Skype or some other > >> >> application should be twiddling to adjust recording volume > >> >> automatically? Is it this control that should come first when they are > >> >> enumerated, or is there some property that is missing from this > >> >> control to tell the application which control to use? (ie: is there > >> >> anything the alsa-driver does to help the application get this right?) > >> > > >> > The "Capture" volume is available. Skype should choose it as default. > >> > Isn't it just the old saved setup that screws up? > >> > >> Clearing ~/.Skype and restarting gets the same behavior. Skype is > >> playing the "front mic" control instead of "capture". I see a bunch of > > > > Hm, then it's rather a problem of Skype. > > > > Okay. Thanks for all your help so far! > > >> >> 1. The "pc beep" is still making a bad buzz/crackling noise when an > >> >> xterm beep occurs. There's also a new "speaker" control but it doesn't > >> >> affect this behavior (unrelated?). > > >> > Hm, this is basically independent from my change, and I guess this is > >> > a codec hardware issue. > > The last item was the "pc beep" thing. It looks like you're the guy to > talk to about that too: is there any debugging I can do on my end to > help sort that out? It looks from the log like there's some tricky > business with getting the beep frequency right? It's not clear from your description what is the actual problem, i.e. whether it's a wrong HZ calculation or just the loudness. It seems that the loudness is hard-coded and can't be softer. But the frequency should be certainly fixable. The frequency calculation is found in hda_beep.c. Takashi _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
