At Tue, 7 Aug 2012 14:57:36 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 01:26:37PM +0200, David Henningsson wrote:
On 08/07/2012 01:15 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
Isn't this a fairly simple Pulse/distro issue?
PulseAudio - no, because PulseAudio does not control *all* volumes. They're partially overlapping, but not completely.
Oh, that's very surprising - my understanding had been that PulseAudio was essentially just ignoring the configuration it got on startup. Is there any great reason not to subsume the functionality currently done using alsactl?
Well, you can't know all subtle controls exactly. For example, what PA should do for a control like "Never Turn Off This Capture Switch"? It can be included in a card-specific database PA holds, but if it's not there (suppose it's a shiny new driver), the safest way is to leave it as is.
Takashi