Re: softvol plugin

[thomas schorpp <t.schorpp@gmx.de>]

Lee Revell wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 19:40 +0100, thomas schorpp wrote:
> 

> 
> 
> I think you missed my point.  There is a PCM slider for cards with no
> hardware volume control.  It's provided by the softvol plugin, which is
> part of alsa-lib, which lives in userspace.  Since it works fine in
> userspace, there's no reason for it to be in the kernel, other than to
> provide software volume control for OSS apps using the in-kernel OSS
> emulation.  The OSS API is deprecated, so there's no way the kernel
> developers will bloat the kernel by letting in software volume control
> for the sole purpose of supporting a deprecated API.

yes, agree.

ill check my installation.

schorpp@tom1:~$ dpkg -l alsa* |grep 1.0.8
ii  alsa-base      1.0.8-5        ALSA driver configuration files
ii  alsa-oss       1.0.8-1        ALSA wrapper for OSS applications
ii  alsa-utils     1.0.8-2        ALSA utilities
schorpp@tom1:~$
schorpp@tom1:~$ dpkg -l libasound* |grep 1.0.8
ii  libasound2     1.0.8-2        ALSA library
ii  libasound2-dev 1.0.8-2        ALSA library development files
ii  libasound2-doc 1.0.8-2        ALSA library developer documentation
ii  libasound2-plu 1.0.8-2        ALSA library plugins
schorpp@tom1:~$

sorry, i cant get a pcm master slider on any mixer.

> 
> Also keep in mind we are talking about the cheapest of the cheap
> hardware.  They are probably saving a penny or two per board, by wasting
> everyone's CPU cycles to do volume control in software.  The actual fix
> is to get a real sound card.

fine then.

> 
> Lee
> 


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