From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Clemens Ladisch Subject: Re: CMI8788/AV200/Oxygen Volume Controls in alsamixer (oxygen_mixer.c:dac_volume_get()) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:13:31 +0100 Message-ID: <4979D08B.3090103@ladisch.de> References: <49790314.10607@dmx.com> <4979CB63.9030205@ladisch.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from out3.smtp.messagingengine.com (out3.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.27]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 683B02441F for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:13:42 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: Takashi Iwai Cc: ALSA Developers , "John L. Utz III" List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Takashi Iwai wrote: > Clemens Ladisch wrote: > > Alsamixer chooses to display an eight-channel control this way. This > > can be considered a bug in alsamixer. > > The current ALSA mixer abstraction splits the multi-channels into > separate paired channels. But alsamixer can't show the channel name > due to its UI design. The its UI design should be changed. > A solution would be make individual control like "Front", and create a > virtual master control. I am *not* going to change the driver just to accommodate to alsamixer. I am going to change alsamixer to display the channel names (which it already knows). Best regards, Clemens