At Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:21:37 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 01:08:22PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
OTOH, "* Capture Switch" is handled as "capture" switch, which is indicated as "CAPTURE" (and "L" & "R") in the above. Also, if the
Right; however the effect of a capture switch is pretty much equivalent to mute for a playback control.
Although the switch is the inverted direction of the mute.
The keys you mentioned above are all for playback mute controls, thus irrelevant with the capture switch. User space key to toggle the capture switch.
That doesn't quite answer Timur's question - the question was more why capture switches are being presented to the user as mono controls even when the two channels can be switched independantly.
No, they are handled actually as stereo. That's why "L" and "R" are shown in alsamixer. They can be toggled independently via ";" and "'" keys. It's just not written in the man page.
Before complaining, patches are appreciated, of course :)
Takashi