On Sat, 09 Apr 2011 20:20:40 +0200, David Henningsson <david.henningsson at canonical.com> wrote: > On 2011-04-08 17:18, Colin Guthrie wrote: >> 'Twas brillig, and oku at iki.fi at 08/04/11 15:18 did gyre and gimble: >>> From: Jyri Sarha<jyri.sarha at nokia.com> >>> >>> Before this patch, if any of the paths in a path set do not >>> support HW volume then the HW volume is disabled for the whole >>> set. In some cases this is a bit drastic measure. For instance, >>> if all but one of the paths support HW volume and dB there no >>> problem to pretend that we have HW volume for the whole set. The >>> path without any mixers to control will just always return 0 dB >>> and the rest is handled by SW volume. This patch adds a flag to >>> the mapping section of profile set file to enables this behavior. >> >> David, this sounds similar to your USB Headset issue from a couple days >> ago... or am I just reading too much into the description? > > Sort of - it just feels like neither of us has tried to do the right > thing so far - I added a workaround/quirk for a few devices, and this > patch adds a setting to turn something on and off. > > I'd like it to "just work". > > Or put in another way - what's the recommended default setting of this > new parameter, and why? > Target for my patch was to be non intrusive, but if you agree I can easily change my patch to always behave like force-hw-volume flag was set to true and remove the flag. It is even easier just to change the default for the flag. Cheers, Jyri
