From: "Soeren D. Schulze" <soeren.d.schulze@gmx.de>
To: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: Handling of the DXS controls in the via82xx driver
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:04:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BAE8EF7.20204@gmx.de> (raw)
Hi everyone,
before my latest upgrade to Linux 2.6.32 (yes, sorry, it's Debian), I
had four levers in my alsamixer: VIA DXS, VIA DXS 1, VIA DXS 2 and VIA
DXS 3. They controlled the hardware mixing when accessing the sound
device multiple times.
Now they have disappeared. I think I can pretty certainly trace this
down to commit 2fb930b53f513cbc4c102d415d2923a8a7091337 to Linux
[http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.32.y.git;a=commit;h=2fb930b53f513cbc4c102d415d2923a8a7091337],
which "move[s] DXS volume controls to PCM interface".
As I'm not an ALSA developer, I don't realize the intended effect of
this change, but the actual effect is that I cannot change the DXS
volumes any more. mplayer still controls the global PCM volume. Well,
in fact, there is one way. While an mplayer is running, I can do:
amixer cset numid=47,iface=PCM,name='PCM Playback Volume' 24,24
When restarting mplayer, the volume is reset to 31,31 (maximum). Commit
3d00941371a765779c4e3509214c7e5793cce1fe
[http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.33.y.git;a=commit;h=3d00941371a765779c4e3509214c7e5793cce1fe]
seems to be responsible for this.
The bad thing about it is that 31,31 is a really bad setting for my
poorly engineered sound card. It distorts a lot.
I suspect that the real *bug* is that mplayer does not use the
per-channel DXS controls even though it's supposed to (which seems to be
why the DXS controls are called "PCM Playback Volume").
Personally, rather than fixing this bug, I would just revert to the
former state. I was always happy with all the DXS levers set to 75%.
Thank you
Sören
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next reply other threads:[~2010-03-27 23:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-27 23:04 Soeren D. Schulze [this message]
2010-03-29 1:24 ` Handling of the DXS controls in the via82xx driver Raymond Yau
2010-03-29 1:39 ` Raymond Yau
2010-03-29 12:56 ` Clemens Ladisch
2010-03-29 13:21 ` Soeren D. Schulze
2010-03-31 23:00 ` Raymond Yau
2010-03-31 1:39 ` Raymond Yau
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