On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 09:35, Florian Schmidt wrote: > Hi, > > i heard on the #alsa irc channel, that some graphical mixer apps don't > treat the alsa mixer [ctl] devices not right. For example on a cs46xx > alsamixergui does not allow toggling capture on the "Capture" channel. > This would be required and is no problem with alsamixergui. > > I wonder if other mixers have problems like this. This can be confusing > like Hell to newbies.. The hdsp driver (as I understand it) does not export the controls necessary for alsamixer to work with these cards. Instead we use hdspmixer, which is a much better mixer. Due to this difference if you want to do the equivalent of alsactl restore with the hdsp series I think you have to run a script with commands in it to set levels, or you have to start X and run hdspmixer. For this reason it's a drag on my system to keep scripts around for times when I do a remote reboot and am not able to run hdspmixer. Currentlt alsamixer and the hdsp family do not mix. (You decide if the pun was intended.) ;-)
