Fedora 11 nerfed my mixer

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Thu Apr 23 03:40:43 UTC 2009


On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 05:46:11PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
 > On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 20:38 -0400, Will Woods wrote:
 > > On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 19:18 -0400, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
 > > 
 > > > What do you mean? Having full control of your soundcard with all the
 > > > sliders and stuff is useless?
 > > > Not displaying everything 1-1 and hiding sliders is an improvement?
 > > 
 > > Holy hell yes:
 > > http://people.redhat.com/alexl/files/why-alsa-sucks.png
 > 
 > That's a true screenshot, but that argument is vulnerable to the exact
 > same 'logic' used to justify not caring about people who need to adjust
 > a different slider than Master or PCM, or people who want to switch
 > input channels: it's not a common case. most people don't see that much
 > of a mess of channels. The "Trident TRID4DWAVENX" is not a common sound
 > adapter.

Good thing it doesn't happen on other more common cards then.
Like say, the emu10k1. 
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/junk/wtf/alsa-mixer-o-doom.jpg

oops.

	Dave




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