[Alsa-user] soft mixing: volume control

2007-02-08 Thread Bruno Schneider
Hi all, I use XMMS to listen to music, while other sound enabled applications do their things. These other applications sometimes send sound warnings that I hear mixed along the music. The problem is that some applications have low volume samples that I can barely hear together with loud music. I

Re: [Alsa-user] soft mixing: volume control

2007-02-08 Thread Ingo Müller
Hi! The thing you need is the softvol plugin. Here is an example of how you use it: pcm.xmms { type softvol slave.pcmdefault control { name XMMS card 0 } } If you now make XMMS use the xmms device, you get a new volume control called XMMS that

Re: [Alsa-user] soft mixing: volume control

2007-02-08 Thread Bruno Schneider
On 2/8/07, Ingo Müller wrote: [...] If you now make XMMS use the xmms device, you get a new volume control called XMMS that controls the volume of that device. You may have to change the value of slave.pcm according to the name of the device you used with XMMS before. I get the same as

Re: [Alsa-user] soft mixing: volume control

2007-02-08 Thread Ingo Müller
Hi! I had the same problem as you when I set up my system. The controls don't appear imidiately. I don't know yet what does the trick. Try combinations of playing sound and restarting alsa/your computer. I'm pretty sure that the device has to be used at least once before it appears. Maybe an ALSA

Re: [Alsa-user] soft mixing: volume control

2007-02-08 Thread Bruno Schneider
On 2/8/07, Ingo Müller wrote: I had the same problem as you when I set up my system. The controls don't appear imidiately. I don't know yet what does the trick. Try combinations of playing sound and restarting alsa/your computer. I'm pretty sure that the device has to be used at least once

Re: [Alsa-user] soft mixing: volume control

2007-02-08 Thread Ingo Müller
Hi! Bruno Schneider schrieb: Great! It works! :) Thanks Ingo! That's good to hear! I restarted ALSA and the volume knob became available. As I had used the new device before restarting ALSA, I'm not sure if it could be done without previously playing sound. My final .asoundrc is: