'Twas brillig, and David Henningsson at 12/01/12 09:58 did gyre and gimble: > "Front Speaker", "Surround Speaker" seems to be a common enough name > to make it into alsa-utils, so we should probably care about it as > well. In this case, there was a macbook pro whose speakers didn't work > without these controls. Seams reasonable. On a related note, have you ever come across a "Master Front" on your travels? To me it doesn't make much sense (was is "Master Front" that isn't covered by "Front"?). Perhaps it's just a mislabelled "Master" - don't suppose you remember fixing or seeing a fix for this? https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2119 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/