'Twas brillig, and David Henningsson at 19/01/11 15:59 did gyre and gimble: > Yeah, I guess it's time. Let me know if you want six emails instead of one. > > Over the past few weeks - although there always seems to be something > else you have to fix first - I've been working on fixing the > long-standing issues with the pulseaudio mixer paths not working > correctly on the input side: basically it isn't showing helpful enough > names (e g "Microphone 1" and "Microphone 2" instead of "Front > Microphone" and "Rear Microphone"), and not always controlling the right > sliders underneath. > > I have tested it on the stuff I have here and it seems to work well > enough. For Ubuntu users, easy testing is here: > https://launchpad.net/~diwic/+archive/pulse-mixer > > Realtek HDA codecs might need two recent ALSA commits that rename "Mic > Boost" to "Mic Boost Volume", and to change an index error that made PA > ignore the control. They are both in queue for 2.6.38. I've also made > some changes in the kernel to clear up the namespace (i e change some of > the more crazy names to standard names) recently that might be interesting. > > As for where this is going (master, stable-queue, or /dev/null?) - > speaking from Ubuntu's standpoint I'd strongly prefer stable-queue, > because I want this in Ubuntu 11.04, which is based on stable-queue. Me > being biassed, It'll be up to the rest of you (Colin etc) to make the > decision given that there is somewhat of a regression risk, at least for > unusual hardware. Thanks very much for this. Not sure I'll have time to properly review today, but I'll try and find time in the week... although I am pretty busy. If anyone else gets the chance to ACK them in the mean time, I'd appreciate it :D Cheers Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mageia Contributor [http://www.mageia.org/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
