> >> The question of course is NOT why aumix has a volume control which > >> works > >> but why the alsa mixer (which surely is part of alsa) has no volume > >> control, and as a result I could not turn up the output volume using > >> alsamixer. > >> Surely the complete absense of a volume control is a bug. > > > > Not necessarily, lots of hardware does not have a volume control these > > days. Maybe aumix calls PCM "volume", who knows. You would have to > > look at the source. > > OOps. I just looked more closely at what happens to one of the mixers when > I changed the other. The "Volume" on the aumix is the "Front" on the > alsamixer. So they do correspond to each other and alsamixer does have all > of the controls of the aumix. Sorry for the noise on the line. Lets return > to regular programming.
i have the same sound hardware, and have made the same observations as bill made vis a vis the oss "volume" being equivalent to the alsa "front". what i haven't figured out how to fix is to get the gnome volume control panel app (the little one that comes up when i use the Fn keys on the laptop keyboard) to control the correct mixer channel. i've been told that the code does a raw ioctl of some sort to control the "volume" channel. clearly if not all systems have a "volume", then gnome needs to be more configurable. if anyone has other insights (or better, fixes :-), i'd like to hear them. paul =--------------------- paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (arlington, ma, where it's 53.8 degrees) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
