On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 04:04:04PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
Mark Brown wrote:
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.
Yes, I was assuming that this was what it was doing - I just thought that there was functionality for doing the stuff alsactl is being used for in PulseAudio.