[alsa-devel] Issues and/or possible bugs in alsa

[Takashi Iwai]

At Sat, 28 Feb 2015 18:22:19 +0500,
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> 
> 28.02.2015 15:00, Raymond Yau wrote:
> >
> > It is strange that your hdmi card have a softvol control ,
> >
> > Was  the softvol control created when you swap the card number by 
> > index=1,0 ?
> >
> 
> The control was created when I used a custom asoundrc in order to test 
> dmix on top of hdmi. Since then, I removed the customization, but there 
> is no easy way to remove the control, as it is always saved on shutdown 
> and restored on boot even if there is nothing in the current .asoundrc 
> that uses it. I will remove it from the state file using a livecd, just 
> to avoid such questions in the future.

Right, there is no command so far for removing a user ctl element.
It's relatively trivial to implement, though, e.g. in amixer or
alsactl, I guess.  Any taker?


Takashi