Re: Mixer volume dB settings.

[James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.demon.co.uk>]

Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I am thinking of a method to provide dB volume setting with alsamixer. 
>>My suggestion is to add another variable to the mixer control structure. 
>>This variable will be an integer identifying the conversion function. If 
>>set to 0, no conversion function has been defined. If set to 1 or above, 
>>use a lookup table in alsa-lib to select the conversion function. The 
>>user land api would then be: snd_mixer_convert_hardware_to_db( 
>>hardware_value, conversion_function, &db_value); 
>>snd_mixer_convert_db_to_hardware( db_value, conversion_function, 
>>hardware_value )
>>
>>The reason for this, is that it seems to me that only the hardware 
>>driver will have full knowledge of what the conversion function should 
>>be, and setting a simple integer for conversion_function_type would seem 
>>the simplest solution.
>>
>>The global conversion functions could then be defined in an alsa-lib 
>>config file.
>>
>>This would also allow the application to increase/decrease the hardware 
>>value, but display to the user the dB value.
>>
>>Any comments?
> 
> 
> I already defined the interface in alsa-lib/include/mixer.h. Look for dB 
> functions there.
> 
> Also, the skeleton of the new mixer with abstraction layer is quite 
> finished. I need only implement a first real code for one driver as 
> example and we can start adding the abstraction code for all cards.
> 
> 						Jaroslav
> 

Shall we pick a card we both have. I have a intel8x0 motherboard, and 
most creative cards. Do you have either of those?



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