jmal8295 wrote:
With the new controls, the only way to change them would be on the command line: amixer cset iface=PCM,name="PCM Playback Volume",subdevice=x yy
Hmmm ... that is almost as cumbersome as it could be. Is it at least planed to add it to some other mixer, like alsamixer? Another view perhaps?
That would be useful (also for the same controls of the Emu10k1 and DS-1 drivers).
BTW: How do you determine which of the four controls is associated with a specific application?
Trial and error :-).
A mixer application/view that knows about these controls could show the program name, but that would require that ALSA gives out information about the process that has opened a substream.
In any case, the main purpose of the patch was to rename the controls to prevent "alsactl restore" from restoring the old wrong volume setting, so it would suffice to just change the controls' name in some way, such as from "VIA DXS" to "DXS".
I would propose to use this oportunity to rename them to something more descriptive, but I have no idea what that could be (considering limited space in mixer programs).
"PCM Stream"?
Best regards, Clemens