On 01/19/2012 01:14 PM, Colin Guthrie wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and David Henningsson at 13/01/12 08:49 did gyre and gimble: >> On 2012-01-12 20:44, Colin Guthrie wrote: >>> '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. >> >> Committed? > > It is now in my tree will push later tonight with your other patch. > Sorry for my tardiness. I really suck of late, but trying to get head > into it again :D No worries. Let me know if I push you too hard. :-) >>> 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 >> >> Yes. The question is about what name controls the Front channel of the >> Line-Out port but not the Speaker/HP, and what name controls the Front >> channel of all those outputs (but still not Surround). >> >> If I understand Takashi right, he wants "Front" to control all three of >> them, whereas "Front Line-Out" would control only the first one. The >> reality is that "Master Front" controls all three, the behaviour of >> "Front" is inconsistent, and "Front Line-Out" does not exist. >> >> We've distro patched "Master Front", but if my memory does not fail me >> you chose not to upstream it when we went through the Ubuntu patches >> together at the Desktop Summit. > > Hmm, right. Your memory is likely better than mine. I'll take another > look at that one - tho' I guess it should still be fixed at the alsa level. > > OK, another mixer question now I've got you listening :D > > https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212 > https://bugs.mageia.org/attachment.cgi?id=1204 (alsa-info) > > This has three "Master" controls (0-2). I'm not really sure what this > means! Can you shed some light on it (is it just something that is > better quirked in newer kernels?) Having three masters is all terribly wrong, and hopefully it has been fixed since 2.6.38. -- David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd. http://launchpad.net/~diwic
