Fedora 11 nerfed my mixer

Suren Karapetyan surenkarapetyan at gmail.com
Thu Apr 23 18:20:05 UTC 2009


On Thursday 23 April 2009 18:13:28 Matthew Garrett wrote:
>
> The "bug" is exposing all of the native mixer functionality in the alsa
> mixer implementation and then presenting that in the UI. This is
> precisely the problem that PA's mixer design fixes.
>

Exposing mixer functionality isn't a bug!
If someone has a sound card which has some advanced controls
(e.g. bass/treble) and you're trying (very hard) to hide them,
you aren't doing any good to that guy.
He bought that card - he deserves the right to use all it's functionality.

Suren




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