Fedora 11 nerfed my mixer

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 23:40 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 05:46:11PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
>  > On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 20:38 -0400, Will Woods wrote:
>  > > On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 19:18 -0400, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
>  > > 
>  > > > What do you mean? Having full control of your soundcard with all the
>  > > > sliders and stuff is useless?
>  > > > Not displaying everything 1-1 and hiding sliders is an improvement?
>  > > 
>  > > Holy hell yes:
>  > > http://people.redhat.com/alexl/files/why-alsa-sucks.png
>  > 
>  > That's a true screenshot, but that argument is vulnerable to the exact
>  > same 'logic' used to justify not caring about people who need to adjust
>  > a different slider than Master or PCM, or people who want to switch
>  > input channels: it's not a common case. most people don't see that much
>  > of a mess of channels. The "Trident TRID4DWAVENX" is not a common sound
>  > adapter.
> 
> Good thing it doesn't happen on other more common cards then.
> Like say, the emu10k1. 
> http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/junk/wtf/alsa-mixer-o-doom.jpg

OK, so there's clearly a bug there.

Again to take the approach of the PulseAudio cheerleaders: this should
clearly be reported to the upstream project so it gets resolved. =)
-- 
Adam Williamson
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