On 8/29/06, Dmitry Baikov <dsbaikov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
6) More of a question: why alsamixer does not support hdsp? hdspmixer functionality do not look too complex for alsamixer.
Actually, parts of it are a lot more complex than alsamixer because of the HDSP's full matrix mixer. Furthermore, a limitation with the hardware prevents the querying of the matrix mixer values, so the app that controls it has to fully set up all values in order to know what is going on. hdspmixer does that. Thomas Charbonnel, the author of hdspmixer (and a lot of the hdsp alsa driver) planned to write a server or an API to support it so multiple apps could control it simultaneously, but he has disappeared from the scene. jlc
