Simplifying the mixer

Lorn Potter lpotter at trolltech.com
Thu Jun 12 02:47:09 CEST 2008


On Thursday 12 June 2008 09:44, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
> On Thursday 12 June 2008 01:11:55 Joerg Reisenweber wrote:
> > Am Mi  11. Juni 2008 schrieb Michael 'Mickey' Lauer:
> > > On Wednesday 11 June 2008 21:41:29 Mike Montour wrote:
> > > > My recommendation would be to keep the register numbers out of the
> > > > names, but to change some of those strings to more closely match the
> > > > names used in the chip documentation.
> > > >
> > > > For example, consider the controls called "Headphone" and "Speaker".
> > > > Neither label is correct for the GTA01 - "Headphone" is actually
> > > > LOUT1/ROUT1 and controls all audio from the WM8753 to the LM4857
> > > > chip, while "Speaker" is LOUT2/ROUT2 and is N/C.
> > >
> > > Agreed. Having 40+ controls in the mixer is confusing enough, let alone
> > > wrong  labelling.
> >
> > 40+?? do a "tail /etc/alsa.state", it's 90+!
>
> Oops :)
>
> > Anyway, if we *are* able to change the names, I would strongly suggest to
> > either include a 2-digit unique reference to the register, or use the
> > chip doc names all the way. (Or at least push someone to create a
> > 3-col-dictionary alsa|R-b:b|specname)
> > Try to figure out what's "sidetone" in alsamixer, and have a 'nice' time
> > ;-)!
>
> Indeed... so what is this for? ;)

I believe sidetone is for putting your voice on what you hear. Comes from the 
old analog handset days. 
http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/sidetone


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Lorn 'ljp' Potter
Software Engineer, Systems Group, MES, Trolltech




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