[alsa-devel] Sound Blaster Audigy (snd_ca0106 Creative Labs|SB Audigy LS): How to use the mixer?

[Colin Guthrie]

Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:13:16 +0100,
> Colin Guthrie wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Just trying to help a user with a problem and it seems to be down to the
>> fact that his SB Audigy LS does not have a "Master" or "PCM" mixer control.
>>
>> I asked Lennart about this and he told that Takashi said he wanted to 
>> make sure that all devices have at least a Master vol control.
>>
>> This one doesn't!
>>
>> Please let me know what you need in order to fix this.
>>
>> This is with 1.0.17... I can't see anything in the changelog that would 
>> suggest this is fixed in the 1.0.18rc1.
> 
> Did you update *driver*?  Updating alsa-lib won't fix the problem.

Yeah I made sure the user was on a 1.0.17 *driver* confirmed via 
/proc/asound/version (he was originally confused about lib and driver 
versions but I corrected him there already!)

> The recent ca0106 driver has a virtual master control, so this should
> have been fixed.

Cool, thanks. Is that post 1.0.17? From you comment about updating the 
driver, I suspect it was supposed to be in 1.0.17 (/me looks) hmm yes:

http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Changes_v1.0.16_v1.0.17#CA0106_driver


This is odd. I definitely requested that the user ensure the driver 
version is 1.0.17 (he confirmed it by /proc/asound/version) and then run 
amixer -c 0 to output the previously attached dump (which does not have 
a Master).

Any ideas.

Col.



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