2011/3/28 Jaroslav Kysela perex@perex.cz
On Mon, 28 Mar 2011, David Henningsson wrote:
I know this issue has been brought up before, without resolution.
Basically
PulseAudio cannot open cards such as M-Audio 2496 and M-Audio Delta
1010LT
because it does not try to open "front" with 10 channels, only with 2.
I think it is reasonable to assume that a front:x stream should be able
to
open with 2 channels only, therefore I'm proposing this fix, and I'm
applying
it to Ubuntu as well, unless you have a better idea.
I applied your change to our git repo . Perhaps we find a better solution in future.
Jaroslav
But front device cannot be used for capture
I have used David 's alsamixertest to verify that using "front" device of HDA intel for playback/capture , the softvol plugin "PCM Playback Volume affect the dB scale