At Mon, 24 Jul 2006 14:40:12 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 20:30 +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I try to make my 5.1 speaker set work properly on an SB Live! Player > > with Alsa from kernel 2.6.17. Most things work well, but there is > > something that feels like a bug or inconsistency in user interface: > > > > The volume for rear speakers, center, bass speakers seem to behave > > indepently from any other controls. When I adjust "Master" setting, it > > does not act like master. It is only applied on the front speaker pair, > > all others are not changed. I need to go to the particular control > > setting in alsamixer and tune them independently. Every time. > > > > That does not make sence. I expect Master to behave like Master, a > > factor which is applied to all available speaker volumes and playing > > input sources. > > This bug has been known for years. STILL no solution. > > Takashi-san, didn't someone (Mikael Magnusson?) post a patch that fixed > this? What happened to it?
That patch did too many things. It added not only yet another master but also more new controls, which leads to confusion, IMO. A simple solution would be an additional DSP-based master that replaces the current ac97-master, and rename ac97-master as front. Takashi ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
