From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Colin Guthrie Subject: Re: Sound Blaster Audigy (snd_ca0106 Creative Labs|SB Audigy LS): How to use the mixer? Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:14:05 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB4832450D for ; Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:14:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KXfdw-0001HA-LZ for alsa-devel@alsa-project.org; Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:14:16 +0000 Received: from 80-192-67-147.cable.ubr10.edin.blueyonder.co.uk ([80.192.67.147]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:14:16 +0000 Received: from gmane by 80-192-67-147.cable.ubr10.edin.blueyonder.co.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:14:16 +0000 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: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Colin Guthrie wrote: > Takashi Iwai wrote: >> At Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:13:16 +0100, >> Colin Guthrie wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Just trying to help a user with a problem and it seems to be down to the >>> fact that his SB Audigy LS does not have a "Master" or "PCM" mixer control. >>> >>> I asked Lennart about this and he told that Takashi said he wanted to >>> make sure that all devices have at least a Master vol control. >>> >>> This one doesn't! >>> >>> Please let me know what you need in order to fix this. >>> >>> This is with 1.0.17... I can't see anything in the changelog that would >>> suggest this is fixed in the 1.0.18rc1. >> Did you update *driver*? Updating alsa-lib won't fix the problem. > > Yeah I made sure the user was on a 1.0.17 *driver* confirmed via > /proc/asound/version (he was originally confused about lib and driver > versions but I corrected him there already!) > >> The recent ca0106 driver has a virtual master control, so this should >> have been fixed. > > Cool, thanks. Is that post 1.0.17? From you comment about updating the > driver, I suspect it was supposed to be in 1.0.17 (/me looks) hmm yes: > > http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Changes_v1.0.16_v1.0.17#CA0106_driver > > > This is odd. I definitely requested that the user ensure the driver > version is 1.0.17 (he confirmed it by /proc/asound/version) and then run > amixer -c 0 to output the previously attached dump (which does not have > a Master). I've confirmed the user is using 1.0.17. The kernel is 2.6.27rc(something). So perhaps the driver is missing something for certain hardware? His PCI Ids are: lspci -nn | grep -i aud 00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Creative Labs SB Audigy LS [1102:0007] Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]