From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Clemens Ladisch Subject: Re: [alsa-cvslog] alsa-kernel: Official ALSA project GIT repository for Linux 2.6 branch, master now at v2.6.31-rc8-407-gfc9e4a3 Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:53:06 +0200 Message-ID: <4ACAF762.8020402@ladisch.de> References: <20091006063609.B06E110381F@alsa0.perex.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D82210380E for ; Tue, 6 Oct 2009 09:53:10 +0200 (CEST) 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: Jaroslav Kysela Cc: Takashi Iwai , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Jaroslav Kysela wrote: > On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > noreply-git@alsa-project.org wrote: > >> Author: Clemens Ladisch > >> sound: via82xx: move DXS volume controls to PCM interface > >> > >> Commit b452e08e73c0e3dbb0be82130217be4b7084299e in 2.6.30 broke the > >> restoring of these volumes by "amixer restore" that most distributions > > amixer restore == alsactl restore ? Oops, yes. > > Well, this control was once removed, and then revived due to complains > > by users who have used it in mixer. Moving this to PCM iface does > > almost the same thing, disabling an easy way to access it. > > amixer utility should handle such controls without problems. Yes, it should. I haven't yet found where the hctl functions break it. > We have similar volume controls in emu10k1 driver, but having 32 PCM > volume controls in mixer is not much fun. It might make sense to show such controls only for opened PCM substreams, together with the process name. Best regards, Clemens