'Twas brillig, and Tanu Kaskinen at 02/01/10 01:12 did gyre and gimble: > pe, 2010-01-01 kello 16:02 +0100, Burkhard Stubert kirjoitti: > I think the main motivation for the profiles came from the desire to > switch between stereo and surround modes. That and switching between analog and digital outputs. > Yes, it can be ignored. The alsa mixer apparently can't be opened using > the "front" device. I'm not sure if this is a bug in the driver, but we > can use "hw" as well. If "front:" doesn't work, I believe this is considered an ALSA bug. Hopefully Lennart will clarify, but if this is the case you should raise it with the alsa devs via their mailing list. Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]