Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-29 Thread Dominique Michel
Le Sat, 29 Jul 2006 04:31:33 +0300, Sergei Steshenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:21:19 -0700 (PDT) Bill Unruh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Sergei Steshenko wrote: On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:20:08 -0700 (PDT) Bill Unruh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Takashi Iwai [Thu, Jul 27 2006, 01:12:34PM]: At Mon, 24 Jul 2006 14:40:12 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 20:30 +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: Hello, I try to make my 5.1 speaker set work properly on an SB Live! Player with Alsa from kernel 2.6.17.

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Arthur Marsh
Eduard Bloch wrote: ... Honnestly, the current set of mixer controls is cumbersome. $user can hardly understand what all the controls are good for, and mixer software is not user-friendly either. The Live! mixer from Creative gives you a joystick control where you can move the marker around

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 12:47 +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: Yes, I talk about useability which just sucks. I imagine a more clear frontend/backend infrastructure, an ultimate solution: - access to all backend settings is exported with consistent, fixed names (keywords) - a wrapper in the

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 12:47 +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: Could I get a copy of that patch? Check the alsa-devel archive. Honnestly, the current set of mixer controls is cumbersome. $user can hardly understand what all the controls are good for, and mixer software is not user-friendly either.

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 11:07:51 -0400 Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 12:47 +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: Yes, I talk about useability which just sucks. I imagine a more clear frontend/backend infrastructure, an ultimate solution: - access to all backend settings is

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 21:48 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: If you, the developers, have already written the driver and know how it works, what hardware specs do you need ? It's the documentation issue and/or HAL issue. The guy expresses my thoughts very well. I'm glad yet another end user

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 14:52:55 -0400 Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 21:48 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: If you, the developers, have already written the driver and know how it works, what hardware specs do you need ? It's the documentation issue and/or HAL

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Bill Unruh
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Sergei Steshenko wrote: On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 11:07:51 -0400 Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 12:47 +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: Yes, I talk about useability which just sucks. I imagine a more clear frontend/backend infrastructure, an ultimate

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:04:28 -0700 (PDT) Bill Unruh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Sergei Steshenko wrote: On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 11:07:51 -0400 Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 12:47 +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: Yes, I talk about useability which

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 23:38 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: What I know, is that when I bought M-Audio Revoluion 7.1 - fully supported by ALSA, I couldn't make capture loopback work - documentation said nothing on it. Blah blah blah, same old inflammatory complaints, no offer to help...

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:49:16 -0400 Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 23:38 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: What I know, is that when I bought M-Audio Revoluion 7.1 - fully supported by ALSA, I couldn't make capture loopback work - documentation said nothing on

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 00:03 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: Did you help the guy with M-Audio Revolution 5.1 ? I DID tell him everything I knew based on my M-Audio Revolution 7.1, but, apparently, the cards are different. Are you satisfied that yet another ALSA end user stepped on the same

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 23:38 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: My logic is simple: * if you are saying that a feature is supported, this means you've tested it - otherwise you are simply irresponsible. You're assuming that ALSA developers have access to every sound card that ALSA supports which

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:10:36 -0400 Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 00:03 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: Did you help the guy with M-Audio Revolution 5.1 ? I DID tell him everything I knew based on my M-Audio Revolution 7.1, but, apparently, the cards are

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:20:57 -0400 Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 23:38 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: My logic is simple: * if you are saying that a feature is supported, this means you've tested it - otherwise you are simply irresponsible. You're

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 00:38:03 +0300 Sergei Steshenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:20:57 -0400 Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 23:38 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: My logic is simple: * if you are saying that a feature is supported, this

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 00:38 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: Do you, the developers, test the card before announcing it as supported ? No, the ALSA developers rely on feedback from users to determine what is supported. The ALSA developers only have access to a small fraction of the supported

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 00:47 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: It should be 'why', not 'what' in what the controls for each tested feature You don't seem to understand that vendors can customize the hardware such that the same mixer controls do different things on different devices. The only

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:47:37 -0400 Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 00:38 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: Do you, the developers, test the card before announcing it as supported ? No, the ALSA developers rely on feedback from users to determine what is

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 00:54 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: Then what was exactly the report claiming that M-Audio Revolution 5.1 indeed worked ? Where can end users find in order to read it ans assess its credibility ? That is, to see whether the end user indeed checked the featured

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:52:08 -0400 Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 00:47 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: It should be 'why', not 'what' in what the controls for each tested feature You don't seem to understand that vendors can customize the hardware such

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Bill Unruh
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Sergei Steshenko wrote: On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:20:57 -0400 Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 23:38 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: My logic is simple: * if you are saying that a feature is supported, this means you've tested it - otherwise you

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:20:08 -0700 (PDT) Bill Unruh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Sergei Steshenko wrote: On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:20:57 -0400 Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 23:38 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: My logic is simple: * if you

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Bill Unruh
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Sergei Steshenko wrote: On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:20:08 -0700 (PDT) Bill Unruh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Sergei Steshenko wrote: On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:20:57 -0400 Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 23:38 +0300, Sergei

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:21:19 -0700 (PDT) Bill Unruh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Sergei Steshenko wrote: On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:20:08 -0700 (PDT) Bill Unruh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Sergei Steshenko wrote: On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:20:57 -0400

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Bill Unruh
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Sergei Steshenko wrote: On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:21:19 -0700 (PDT) Bill Unruh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Sergei Steshenko wrote: On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:20:08 -0700 (PDT) Bill Unruh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Sergei Steshenko wrote:

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-27 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Mon, 24 Jul 2006 14:40:12 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 20:30 +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: Hello, I try to make my 5.1 speaker set work properly on an SB Live! Player with Alsa from kernel 2.6.17. Most things work well, but there is something that feels like a bug

[Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-24 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hello, I try to make my 5.1 speaker set work properly on an SB Live! Player with Alsa from kernel 2.6.17. Most things work well, but there is something that feels like a bug or inconsistency in user interface: The volume for rear speakers, center, bass speakers seem to behave indepently from any

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 20:30 +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: Hello, I try to make my 5.1 speaker set work properly on an SB Live! Player with Alsa from kernel 2.6.17. Most things work well, but there is something that feels like a bug or inconsistency in user interface: The volume for rear