>> Beyond that I can't help you much. SB cards are an absolute nightmare. >> Perhaps somebody else on this list who has a SB card can offer more >> help. The Alsa Wiki can sometimes help. >> > >This is a well known problem. The emu10k1 needs an hwdep mixer app, >like on Windows. It's just too complex for a generic mixer API. > >We get a lot of complaints about the mixer but not a lot of suggestions >to improve it. A good way to start it to open an ALSA bug report like >"emu10k1: mixer sux0r" and suggest how we could improve it. The Sound Blaster / Audigy, AC97, and Nvidia related cards or chips are becomming a real pain in the ass. Something needs to be done to make the configuration of these idiot proof. (Not that I'm calling anybody with said hardware an idiot.) I try to help out people on the Gentoo Multimedia forums and there must be several posts a day reading something like "I can't get this POS audio device to work with Alsa". Since most of the noobs to linux are comming from a windows background, wouldn't it help if the mixer app was modeled after the mixer app used for these cards / chips on windows? i.e. no learning curve. (maybe it already is, I've tried to stay away from them) -Reuben -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 3079 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/linux-audio-user/attachments/20041203/ab00758f/attachment.bin
