Re: future ALSA development

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Tue, 24 Jun 2003 15:04:22 +0200 (CEST),
Jaroslav wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Giuliano Pochini wrote:
> 
> > Lisp should be fine, although it's not very user-friendly. But what the
> > interpreter is supposed to do ?  Is it possible to create an ordinary
> > mixer control that the hw doesn't support ?  For example: a card may not
> > have an hw master volume control, but the ordinary mixer has to provide
> > it. Is the lisp config file generic enough to provide a function to
> > emulate the master volume control it by changing the volume controls
> > of all single channels ?  It's not trivial at all to do such a thing
> > with a "normal" config file, but it's possible with an interpreter. The
> > question is: is it worth the effort ?  Or is it better to force all
> > lowlevel drivers to provide a minimal set of ordinary controls ?
> 
> I think that it's worth to let define multiple virtual mixer devices for
> multichannel cards (if required) and I can find more examples in this
> area. You cannot do that in the kernel space without adding more code and
> this is exactly what we do not want.

yes, this way is also helpful to solve the problem of "different
speaker configurations", as posted in another thread.


Takashi


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