[alsa-devel] What does 0dB refer to? (Logitech USB Speakers)

[Jaroslav Kysela]

On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Takashi Iwai wrote:

> Yeah, I'm indeed very fond of automatic volume setup for desktop
> users, too.  I don't know whether it's a role of PA.  Rather I feel
> we'd need to add a feature to alsactl, such as,
> 	% alsactl init
> then it'll either initialize or restore the previous setup.
> 
> So, anyway, what we really need is to gather the data for each
> available device to initialize to the "sane" state...

I agree that initialization should be implemented in alsactl, too. I think 
that only necessary values (Master, PCM, Front, Wave, enable recording 
from Mic) should be kept in database and all other "advanced" controls 
should be untouched. Initial values should be hearable minimum.

I'll try to propose and implement an interface.

					Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex at perex.cz>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, Red Hat, Inc.