Re: [Alsa-user] Mixer settings.

[Florian S. <mis...@gm...>]

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 12:03:22 +0100 (CET)
MvH <co...@lo...> wrote:

> Hello, I am a bit new to alsa since my applications worked better with
> oss before. I own a emu10k1 card.
> 
> I know, the driver has everything unmuted by default, so I use the
> amix program to set the sound in startup, I noticed the following:
> 
> My soundcard has about a dozen or more "devices". Most of them are
> hard to guess what they do.
> When I use alsamixer I have so many sliders, that its kinda hard to
> find wich one to pull. some of them also seem to interact wich
> eachother making it possible to use different mixing setups?
> 
> Is there any convenient mixer that doesnt let me fumble around and
> just gives me a simple set of sliders? I only have a set of nasty old
> pcspeakers for my sound here so I realy don't bother with any of the
> advanced options.
> 
> And is there any documentation about what all the other sliders mean?
> I can guess "Master" and "PCM" but some of the mixer controls seem
> rather obscure. If it allows you to do anything funky with this card (
> like i've seen some years ago in win98 ) it would be fun.

http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=emu10k1
http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=SbLiveMixerControls
http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=SbLiveMixer


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