From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: thomas schorpp Subject: Re: softvol plugin Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 22:08:46 +0100 Message-ID: <4217AADE.6010005@gmx.de> References: <92C0412E07F63549B2A2F2345D3DB515F7D63F@cm-msg-02.cmedia.com.tw> <4216EE28.6040702@gmx.de> <1108799809.9005.3.camel@krustophenia.net> <42178828.2020002@gmx.de> <1108840309.10705.6.camel@krustophenia.net> Reply-To: t.schorpp@gmx.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <1108840309.10705.6.camel@krustophenia.net> Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Lee Revell wrote: > On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 19:40 +0100, thomas schorpp wrote: > > > > I think you missed my point. There is a PCM slider for cards with no > hardware volume control. It's provided by the softvol plugin, which is > part of alsa-lib, which lives in userspace. Since it works fine in > userspace, there's no reason for it to be in the kernel, other than to > provide software volume control for OSS apps using the in-kernel OSS > emulation. The OSS API is deprecated, so there's no way the kernel > developers will bloat the kernel by letting in software volume control > for the sole purpose of supporting a deprecated API. yes, agree. ill check my installation. schorpp@tom1:~$ dpkg -l alsa* |grep 1.0.8 ii alsa-base 1.0.8-5 ALSA driver configuration files ii alsa-oss 1.0.8-1 ALSA wrapper for OSS applications ii alsa-utils 1.0.8-2 ALSA utilities schorpp@tom1:~$ schorpp@tom1:~$ dpkg -l libasound* |grep 1.0.8 ii libasound2 1.0.8-2 ALSA library ii libasound2-dev 1.0.8-2 ALSA library development files ii libasound2-doc 1.0.8-2 ALSA library developer documentation ii libasound2-plu 1.0.8-2 ALSA library plugins schorpp@tom1:~$ sorry, i cant get a pcm master slider on any mixer. > > Also keep in mind we are talking about the cheapest of the cheap > hardware. They are probably saving a penny or two per board, by wasting > everyone's CPU cycles to do volume control in software. The actual fix > is to get a real sound card. fine then. > > Lee > ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click