There is an interesting use case that might make doing things at the
Alsa level limit functionality and it has to do with bluetooth & other
devices.
So let me give an external example. If you have an Android or iPhone and
you are making a phone call, when you press the microphone mute button
to mu
On Mon, 14 Nov 2011, Jerone Young wrote:
> Back to the Thinkpad. If the microphone mute light is just triggered via
> Alsa .. you have a few issues:
>
> - Which microphone are you mutting. At the AlSA level there is not
> a clear way to mute them all. Also what if the microphones are not all
