On Fri, 15.01.10 10:55, David K?gedal (davidk at lysator.liu.se) wrote: > There is a related case that I mentioned a long time ago. I had a > Creative X-mod USB card (I sold it, so I can no longer test this). It > has a big round volume knob that I thought would be nice to use to > control the volume of the sound coming from the device. > > But no, the volume knob doesn't do that. I simply acts as a keyboard and > sends increase-volume/decrease-volume keystrokes. This means that it > would usually (depending on how I configure things) not control what > comes out of the Xmod, but instead control the main volume (which are > the internal laptop speakers or headphones. > > The workaround was of course to make the Xmod the "main" device, and use > the internal card as a secondary. But I was really annoyed by this > misdesign. > > Could this be solved in PA somehow? As pointed in the other mail I just wrote, as soon as xinput becomes available in gtk and some minor fixes are done for uinput we should be able to do this. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
