'Twas brillig, and Tanu Kaskinen at 24/01/10 15:23 did gyre and gimble: > su, 2010-01-24 kello 13:12 +0000, Colin Guthrie kirjoitti: >> Hi, >> >> Someone asked recently about the Beep mixer in alsa. With a PA enabled >> setup, controlling the Beep volume (when this is exposed via alsa) >> becomes awkward. >> >> What is the best way to handle this? Could we tie it/slave it from the >> master volume via the alsa mixer profile stuff perhaps? > > Are you talking about the PC speaker beep? How is controlling its volume > more awkward with PA than without? Mainly due to the fact that mixers are moving to support PA and not alsa so users wont be naturally exposed to a UI that helps them do this. > We probably could tie the Beep element to the sink volume in the alsa > mixer configuration stuff, but that alone doesn't seem like a default > choice that always makes sense. If I use headphones, I may or may not > want the volume to follow the sink volume: at home I might want that, > and in a library I probably wouldn't want that. > > I think the best choice would be to control the PC speaker volume > independently from anything else. At server side it could be implemented > as a separate module that would provide a separate client API. Yeah these were my two thoughts too... not sure if we really should expose it so specifically tho'. I guess some kind of passthrough for some elements is not a bad idea generally, but for this case if we could have some sort of smarts that ties it to the "Event Sounds" slider perhaps that would make for a cleaner UI? 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/]
