From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Henningsson Subject: Re: asihpi: Control naming Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 08:28:22 +0200 Message-ID: <4CA42E06.8000207@canonical.com> References: <4CA4078E.6010601@audioscience.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from adelie.canonical.com (adelie.canonical.com [91.189.90.139]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8E09103917 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 08:28:23 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <4CA4078E.6010601@audioscience.com> 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: Eliot Blennerhassett Cc: Takashi Iwai , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On 2010-09-30 05:44, Eliot Blennerhassett wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm struggling with getting the correct names for controls, so that they > show up correctly in the Playback or Capture modes of alsamixer > > E.g. "PCM 3 Capture Meter" appears in the playback controls? > > How is capture vs playback display determined? > or to put it another way: What are the rules for creating control names. In addition to Takashi's comment, please consider either making your control names compliant with PulseAudio (see earlier post on "alsamixertest" for more information), or make a PulseAudio mixer profile for your card. (At least until UCM is finished enough.) Thanks! -- David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd. http://launchpad.net/~diwic