On Wed, 17 May 2006, Lee Revell wrote:
On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 08:10 -0700, Bill Unruh wrote:
On Wed, 17 May 2006, Lee Revell wrote:
On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 07:42 -0700, Bill Unruh wrote:
Make sure that ALL sliders are up in alsamixer. Do not assume you know
what
the sliders doi from the name. You don't. As far as I can tell noone
does. The names are
internal jokes by the hardware manufacturers (or is it the alsa
people).
Oh please, the names are similar to what you get on Windows.
And that is supposed to be an answer? I do not care who names them or why
(as I said I suspect it is tne card manufacturer) they are not exactly
intuitive as to what they mean.
They reflect the design of the hardware which is often not intuitive.
Agreed. But the user, who has to actually use those sliders, needs
something intuitive. While I agree that perhaps in a short few letter name
it is tough, a longer description would be helpful Eg in alsamixer Item:
line could have a longer description of what the slider actually does.
For example, on my card I have 25 sliders/buttons. I have absolutely no
idea what most of them mean, nor any idea where I could find out what they
mean.
The line-in, mic,... I would expect to the amplitude of the input to the
computer. They are not. A clue is that they are grouped under the playback
list. But clearly the mutes on them are not playback mutes but capture
mutes. There are things like IEC958 Playback Source. I certainly have no idea
what that means, whether it is important or not. or IEC958 Playback
AC97-SPSA, or LFE, or...
Ie, the control of the sound cards becomes a matter of playing with all
possibilities until something works-- generally an exercise in frustration.
And don't tell me to look at the manual for my soundcard, I certainly never
got one (it is an onboard soundcard) and even the manuals I have seen have
been woefully short on telling what all these sliders/buttons mean.
That things are just as confusing in Windows should not an explanation in
Linux. We are not in a competition to see who can do worst.
This is not a great problem to me, but it certainly is a niggle with alsa
(I have never run windows so have no idea if it would a niggle there).
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