Re: Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA / emu10k1 / SPDIF / surround?

[Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>]

On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 01:05 +0200, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 15:55 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > I still think these are poor choices for mixer control names.  The kX
> > driver solves this problem nicely by separating the AC97 mixer controls
> > from the ones implemented with EMU10K1 DSP microcode.  I guess to have
> > this option on Linux, we'd need some way for driver to report which
> > controls are part of the AC97 codec.
> 
> It's not the name, it's the almost total lack of documentation that
> makes mixer controls so confusing. I am going to make up a page from
> what I have learned, but I feel that I am still scratching on the
> surface. For example I still wonder what these controls do:
> - 3D Control - Switch
> - 3D Control Sigmatel - Depth
> - 3D Control Sigmatel - Rear Depth
> - Sigmatel 4-Speaker Stereo Playback Switch

I think those are generic AC97 features.  FWIW they are just as cryptic
on Windows ("3D Enhancement" or something).

I guess you already looked at Documentation/SB-Live-mixer.txt?

Lee



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