Re: [alsa-devel] Is there a way to initialize mixer elements?

At Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:17:50 +0300, Ozan Çağlayan wrote:

Hi,

Sometimes specific hardwares needs special tweaks (e.g. a mixer element is muted by default which avoids getting sound from HP, or the master volume's gain is very low, etc.). Do we have some kind of quirks (kernel-space/user-space) for that situations?

Well, "alsactl init" should be responsible for such a thing.

As a real-world example, I have a user with a VIA VT1708B codec which is not able to get sound from HP unless he mutes the 'Independent HP' control:

http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=4e7672aee15a64f67286a951e75e4168c6cd43d4

Is the switch turned on as default? I think it should be rather off.

Takashi