> > Hello, > A number of users have intermittently(?) been hitting a crash in > alsa-lib 1.0.27 [1, 2] related to the softvol plugin. I'm not able to > reproduce this reliably, so can't find an easy way to debug/fix. > > However, this raises a tangential question - why do we need softvol to > be plugged for 'front' at all? David explained to me that this is to > guarantee the existence of a PCM control. Perhaps I don't fully > understand this, because I'm unconvinced by the reason. Could someone > explain/refute? Because alc660 codec did not has any hardware volume control on the output http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=a327b0925a1697d60ea427fe3f16821d7ef7030b -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20130515/bfdbaa32/attachment.html>