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On 4/17/2012 7:25 AM, Matthias Clasen wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Well put Adam, thanks. That being said, we certainly want to provide
enough control to let people use their sound cards. If something is
missing, by all means, let us know. But "I need control on the level of
<picture of alsa mixer>" is not a very concrete description of what our
controls don't let you do...</pre>
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Well, let's see...<br>
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Once recently the audio I was playing was being mixed with the audio
being transmitted to others. E.g., if I had a music player going
while using Skype, the people at the other end of the line could
hear the music mixed directly into the audio they were getting (it
was <i>not</i> going through the microphone). I have no idea how
things got into this state -- I certainly didn't configure them this
way -- and the only way to fix it was through tweaking the ALSA
channels.<br>
<br>
To get my microphone to work properly, I recently had to play with
the "Front Mic" and "Front Mic Boost" channels in the ALSA mixer.
Just tweaking the input volume slider in pulseaudio wasn't doing the
job. I don't know why that is... I don't understand all the ins and
outs of how my sound card or sound cards in general work, nor do I
wish to. I just want to be able to make my system work properly.<br>
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Those are two use cases I can think of right now; there are others
that come up from time to time that I can't think of off the top of
my head.<br>
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If ALSA and pulseaudio worked better together, i.e., they were,
between the two of them, smart enough to automatically DTRT with the
low-level sound settings, then there would be no need for anyone but
the real audiophiles to access those settings directly. But they <i>don't</i>
work perfectly together. If you just fixed all the glitches so that
everything worked better out-of-the-box, I'd be perfectly happy
never needing to run the ALSA mixer again.<br>
<br>
jik<br>
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