Re: [linux-audio-user] RME Multiface II report

From: Jesse Chappell <jesse@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Wed Aug 30 2006 - 20:45:00 EEST

On 8/29/06, Dmitry Baikov <dsbaikov@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> 6) More of a question: why alsamixer does not support hdsp? hdspmixer
> functionality do not look too complex for alsamixer.

Actually, parts of it are a lot more complex than alsamixer because of
the HDSP's full matrix mixer. Furthermore, a limitation with the
hardware prevents the querying of the matrix mixer values, so the app
that controls it has to fully set up all values in order to know what
is going on. hdspmixer does that. Thomas Charbonnel, the author of
hdspmixer (and a lot of the hdsp alsa driver) planned to write a
server or an API to support it so multiple apps could control it
simultaneously, but he has disappeared from the scene.

jlc
Received on Thu Aug 31 04:15:03 2006

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