From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Revell Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change alsamixer to show different views. Playback controls, or Capture controls. Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 14:37:14 -0400 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <1093631834.837.51.camel@krustophenia.net> References: <412F2E4E.4080300@superbug.demon.co.uk> <412F6481.7030300@superbug.demon.co.uk> <412F709D.10903@superbug.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net (mustang.oldcity.dca.net [216.158.38.3]) by alsa.alsa-project.org (ALSA's E-mail Delivery System) with SMTP id 25BE51FE for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 20:37:13 +0200 (MEST) In-Reply-To: Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Takashi Iwai Cc: James Courtier-Dutton , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 13:48, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Fri, 27 Aug 2004 18:34:21 +0100, > James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > > > > Takashi Iwai wrote: > > >> > > >>I have a question. The "Mic Boost" seems to think it is a "Playback" > > >>control. What would be the best way to getting that to be a "Capture" > > >>control. Would simply editing it in ac97_codec.c be enough? > > > > > > > > > Hmm, when you change the control name itself, it breaks slightly > > > compatibility with older version. > > > > What does the name have to be compatible with? > > I.e. What program might break if we change this in ac97_codec.c ? > > Dunno. But, at least, when you run "alsactl restore", the status > won't be restored. > Is it possible to have alsactl restore ignore controls that it does not understand, leaving them set to the default value, rather than the entire alsactl restore failing if it encounters an error? I have been bitten by this a few times when upgrading ALSA. Lee ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047&alloc_id=10808&op=click