[Alsa-user] Why was the built-in software volume control removed?

2007-10-01 Thread kyle cronan
Hi everyone, I recently updated my media center which is running Fedora devel. It pulled down a new kernel with updated ALSA drivers for my HDA audio chip (Intel 82801H + ALC883). I use IEC958 output to a pair of studio monitors (good sound with minimal fuss). The first thing I noticed about th

Re: [Alsa-user] 3 small intel HDA (STAC9228) problems on dell m1330

2007-10-01 Thread Bill Unruh
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Arthur Marsh wrote: > Bill Unruh wrote, on 2007-10-01 03:11: > >> The HDA is very widely used and abused. Every manufacturer seems to feel >> that they have to munge it into incompatibility themselves. Otherwise their >> engineers do not have enough to do. Alsa writers can only

Re: [Alsa-user] software mixer for an USB-Audio - FastTrack Pro?

2007-10-01 Thread Marcos Guglielmetti
Hola klondike:  | If all what you want is to play various programs with the same  | soundcard at the same time, dmix should do well. On the alsa wiki  | there are some howtos.   Thanks, but, we want to control the soundcard, for instance, lower the mic input, etc. There is no software mixer for t

Re: [Alsa-user] 3 small intel HDA (STAC9228) problems on dell m1330

2007-10-01 Thread Arthur Marsh
Bill Unruh wrote, on 2007-10-01 03:11: > The HDA is very widely used and abused. Every manufacturer seems to feel > that they have to munge it into incompatibility themselves. Otherwise their > engineers do not have enough to do. Alsa writers can only rush after them > and try to sweep up the wors