Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760430AbXH2WeQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:34:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1749667AbXH2WeB (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:34:01 -0400 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([64.65.253.246]:35835 "EHLO gaimboi.tmr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751435AbXH2WeA (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:34:00 -0400 Message-ID: <46D5F45C.7020800@tmr.com> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:34:04 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061105 SeaMonkey/1.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Takashi Iwai CC: "Ivan N. Zlatev" , Michal Piotrowski , Thomas Meyer , LKML Subject: Re: [2/4] 2.6.23-rc4: known regressions References: <46D58CC6.4020605@googlemail.com> <46D59052.6040609@googlemail.com> <3db1ec7f0708290842y176c48eck9f39131a107756f9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2112 Lines: 51 Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:42:56 +0300, > Ivan N. Zlatev wrote: >> On 8/29/07, Michal Piotrowski wrote: >>> ALSA >>> >>> Subject : Master volume control broken >>> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/18/46 >>> Last known good : ? >>> Submitter : Thomas Meyer >>> Caused-By : Ivan N. Zlatev >>> commit 5d5d3bc3eddf2ad97b2cb090b92580e7fed6cee1 >>> Handled-By : Ivan N. Zlatev >>> Status : problem is being debugged >>> >>> >> Hello, >> >> I am not the one to handle the issue. I have just supplied the >> pinconfigs for the intel mac cards and assisted with logs/debug >> information, so I happen to be more of an end user. I am not familiar >> with the code base of the Intel HDA Codec. Takashi Iwai is the one >> with the knowledge to fix the problem. > > ... but without the hardware :-< > > IMO, this is actually no real regression. In the earlier verison, you > didn't have controls for multiple outputs, thus the mixer control was > named as Master. Now you do have multiple individual controls, and > thus there is no master any more, instead. That's the trade-off. > Would you buy or use a stand-alone mixer where the only way to control total output would be to change the setting for one output, then rebalance all the others against it, and then iterate until the result is correct? Is this an intermediate step to the full functionality of a $29 Radio Shack mixer, or a limitation of just one audio driver, or maybe the user interface for ALSA is broken right now? Is it planned to leave Linux audio in this state? -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/