From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change alsamixer to show different views. Playback controls, or Capture controls. Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 11:28:59 +0200 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: <412F2E4E.4080300@superbug.demon.co.uk> <412F6481.7030300@superbug.demon.co.uk> <412F709D.10903@superbug.demon.co.uk> <1093631834.837.51.camel@krustophenia.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.5 - "Awara-Onsen") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: Received: from Cantor.suse.de (cantor.suse.de [195.135.220.2]) by alsa.alsa-project.org (ALSA's E-mail Delivery System) with ESMTP id 51D6D1F8 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 11:29:04 +0200 (MEST) In-Reply-To: <1093631834.837.51.camel@krustophenia.net> Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Lee Revell Cc: James Courtier-Dutton , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047&alloc_id=10808&op=click