From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Clemens Ladisch Subject: Re: Alsamixertest Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 14:34:46 +0200 Message-ID: <4CA9C9E6.7070706@ladisch.de> References: <4C9F6409.6010400@aknet.ru> <20100927005858.GD21247@sirena.org.uk> <4CA0221D.6030208@aknet.ru> <4CA306CB.1090305@canonical.com> <4CA9877F.7060009@canonical.com> <4CA9C22A.2010104@ladisch.de> <4CA9C7BE.7020804@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 8C7501038E1 for ; Mon, 4 Oct 2010 14:34:02 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <4CA9C7BE.7020804@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 2010-10-04 14:01, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > > Non-standard controls can be controlled only by hardware-specific > > tools or by the user. > > Exactly, this is a test tool that checks whether the mixer control names > and dB information live up to PulseAudio's expectations. That's the > tool's purpose. > > Given some thought, perhaps the application warning should be removed. > It might be that it should only require dB information for the controls > it actually wants to test (i e Master, PCM etc)...what do you think? Yes, any program should completely ignore any controls that it doesn't know or care about. Regards, Clemens