From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: Names of things Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 14:44:54 +0200 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: <20031008070757.63677.qmail@web21507.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.5 - "Awara-Onsen") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20031008070757.63677.qmail@web21507.mail.yahoo.com> Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: tsw@johana.com Cc: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org At Wed, 8 Oct 2003 00:07:57 -0700 (PDT), Tom Watson wrote: > > A message a while ago mentioned the difficulty in the "proper" names > for things. While the terms "left" and "right" have been around for a > while, other terms are new to the show. For instance "master" and > "headphone" mean weird things. yes, "headphone" is used often in a wrong way. this control appears usually on ac97 chips. and the recent ac97 chips provide the former headphone output as the "true line-out" pin for the consumer device. hence, nowdays, most implementation uses headphone output as the real line-out instead of the old line-out pin. OTOH, "headphone" in emu10k1 driver refers really to a headphone jack, for example. > In an effort to make things "easier", I > would like to suggest: > > "Front" and "Back". While "Front" is very obvious, "Back" may not be > intuitive (others preferring "Rear"). The problem is that many people > abbreviate channels by their initials, and "R" is already taken > ("Right"), so "Back" is a better choice. Besides, when 4-channel > stereo was being discussed/standardized back in the 70's, they made > that choice. so far, "Surround" (or "Rear") is used for that. it it too amgibuous? > I also support the decision to make "Master" refer to a common control > for many levels (more than 2 channels). well, my understanding of "master" is that it's a controll for all over other controls. i.e. if you change "master", all outputs should be affected. Takashi ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf