From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Clemens Ladisch Subject: Re: Alsamixertest Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 14:01:46 +0200 Message-ID: <4CA9C22A.2010104@ladisch.de> References: <4C9F6409.6010400@aknet.ru> <20100927005858.GD21247@sirena.org.uk> <4CA0221D.6030208@aknet.ru> <4CA306CB.1090305@canonical.com> <4CA9877F.7060009@canonical.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from out5.smtp.messagingengine.com (out5.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.29]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF01824466 for ; Mon, 4 Oct 2010 14:00:59 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <4CA9877F.7060009@canonical.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: David Henningsson Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org David Henningsson wrote: > On 2010-10-02 04:11, Raymond Yau wrote: > > It seem that the program keep complain about those controls without dB scale > > (e.g. AC97 3D Control - depth and rear depth , .) with the emulated intel8x0 > > driver and no volume control with the emulated sb16 in virtualbox > > It's a righteous warning if you ask me - all volume controls should > provide dB information, But "3D Depth" and some other controls are not volume controls and are not measured in dB. > or we don't know what they actually do. Where "we" = "generic software like PA". Non-standard controls can be controlled only by hardware-specific tools or by the user. Regards, Clemens