'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 04/01/10 15:33 did gyre and gimble: > 'Twas brillig, and Daniel Chen at 04/01/10 15:04 did gyre and gimble: >> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> wrote: >>> "switch = mute" makes the mixer element state follow pulseaudio's sink >>> mute state, and I don't think you meant to do that. Use "switch = off" >>> to set the element always off or "switch = on" to set it always on. >> >> FWIW, Ubuntu has carried this workaround for Live and Audigy devices, >> but it's only a workaround. It should be fixed in ALSA, and I'll be >> pushing a patch to alsa-utils (for the init db) to do this properly. > > /me has a look to copying that for Gene.... Actually is this safe to do - i.e. disabling it wholesale? Is it not used for digital output in some capacity (e.g. if the user picks a digital profile)? Or is it perfectly "safe" to just turn it off all the time? I don't have this h/w so can't easily test... 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/]