On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 23:38 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > On Wed, 17 May 2006 13:48:56 -0400 > Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 10:19 -0700, Bill Unruh wrote: > > > Agreed. But the user, who has to actually use those sliders, needs > > > something intuitive. While I agree that perhaps in a short few letter > > > name > > > it is tough, a longer description would be helpful Eg in alsamixer > > > Item: > > > line could have a longer description of what the slider actually does. > > > > > > For example, on my card I have 25 sliders/buttons. I have absolutely > > > no > > > idea what most of them mean, nor any idea where I could find out what > > > they > > > mean. > > > > Since ALSA has to expose all the hardware details, I think the best > > solution is to do what the Gnome mixer does, and hide all but the most > > important ones by default. > > > > Lee > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job > > easier > > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > > _______________________________________________ > > Alsa-user mailing list > > Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user > > > > The best solution would be to define ALSA HAL (not just API) first, > along the following lines: > > A general coundcard is: > > 1) user-accessible connectors which can be inputs, outputs, inouts, analog > and digital; > > 2) a there may be connectivity matrix connecting the above connectors with > ADCs, DACs, DSP ? (let's leave it for a time being), so each card should > be accompanied by a machine-readable description of the connectivity matrix; > > 3) there should be machine-readable description of ADCs' and DACs' sampling > rates, per input connector if necessary. > > Etc. > > I'm just giving a direction of thinking. > > With existence of properly defined HAL per card mixer generation (with > meaningful > control names) should become trivial. >
Easier said than done when so much of the driver support had to be reverse engineered. We don't even have this info for a lot of hardware. Lee ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
