On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 14:24 -0600, Reuben Martin wrote: > >> 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". > The SBLive is not a POS, it works well, but the mixer is a mess. The AC97 and Nvidia cards I can't comment on. > 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) Yes but this is harder than you think and requires time and a lot of work. Lee
