Re: Re: ALSA, speakers, volume, mute

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ALSA, speakers, volume, mute
\ Thufir (17 Nov 2007)
. \ Alan McKinnon (17 Nov 2007)
. \ Thufir (18 Nov 2007)
. . \ Dan Farrell (18 Nov 2007)
. . \ Alan McKinnon (18 Nov 2007)

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Subject:	Re: Re: ALSA, speakers, volume, mute
Group:	Gentoo-user
From:	Alan McKinnon
Date:	18 Nov 2007

On Sunday 18 November 2007, Thufir wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:19:34 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Think about this a little bit. Modern audio hardware has multiple
> > inputs and often multiple outputs as well.
> >
> > You absolutely need to be able to control these independantly,
> > because that's the way stuff works.
>
> Ah, well, ok. It just seemed weird to have to hit unmute in
> different places.

On the other hand, it IS very frustrating to open up alsamixer after not
using it for a while, see all those channels and have to figure out all
over again what each one does :-)

The thing that is really stupid though and freaks me out is when
notebook manufacturers use hardware with a brazillion channels and only
two in and one out actually do something (yes Dell, I'm looking at you
here). Alsa looks at this and gives you a mixer slider for everything
that is there whether it works or not...

alan

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