Re: [PATCH] Change alsamixer to show different views. Playback controls, or Capture controls.

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Fri, 27 Aug 2004 14:37:14 -0400,
Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 13:48, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Fri, 27 Aug 2004 18:34:21 +0100,
> > James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> > > 
> > > Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>I have a question. The "Mic Boost" seems to think it is a "Playback" 
> > > >>control. What would be the best way to getting that to be a "Capture" 
> > > >>control. Would simply editing it in ac97_codec.c be enough?
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Hmm, when you change the control name itself, it breaks slightly
> > > > compatibility with older version.
> > > 
> > > What does the name have to be compatible with?
> > > I.e. What program might break if we change this in ac97_codec.c ?
> > 
> > Dunno.  But, at least, when you run "alsactl restore", the status
> > won't be restored.
> > 
> 
> Is it possible to have alsactl restore ignore controls that it does not
> understand, leaving them set to the default value, rather than the
> entire alsactl restore failing if it encounters an error?  I have been
> bitten by this a few times when upgrading ALSA.

-F option does it although it still print warnings.
alsasound init script already uses this option.

However, using a default value means the lost of information, of
course :)


Takashi


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