[alsa-devel] [LAD] FIxed alsa-tools' envy24control missing peak level meters and "Reset Peaks"

[fons at kokkinizita.net]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 09:54:58PM -0700, Niels Mayer wrote:

>  What's even more absurd, is to have the benefits of the
> ice1712's hardware metering squandered by drawing thousands of
> rectangles per second (each individual "LED" on each meter is a
> separate x draw-rectangle call).

It should at least use the XDrawRectangles(), which draws a list
of them in a single call.

> And since the hardware metering already quantizes to 256 levels --
> there's no point in re-quantizing those to individual "virtual LEDs"
> as is done w/ the current envy24control.

Depends. A linear mapping is not really the best you can do.

Ciao,

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