Re: [linux-audio-user] Making Audio on Linux Just Work: (1) defining the goals

From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@email-addr-hidden-job.com>
Date: Wed Dec 14 2005 - 04:12:31 EET

On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 04:18 +0100, Esben Stien wrote:
> Paul Davis <paul@email-addr-hidden> writes:
>
> > control h/w mixer device (if any)
>
> I think we need to fit advanced devices, such as the HDSP into the
> ALSA API. I understand that this device is more of an exception, but
> it should be possible to present this device to the user through
> ALSA. As it is now, we can't control this device through the ALSA API
> with simple alsa commands. I think this is very bad as it gives little
> power to the blind and power users.
>

Yes, exactly. The ALSA developers admit that the mixer API is currently
only sufficient for cheap AC97 type devices, and needs work. Someone
needs to spec out exactly what is missing from the ALSA mixer API that
makes the variety of hardware dependent mixer apps necessary.

Lee
Received on Wed Dec 14 08:15:05 2005

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