Re: [Alsa-user] Multiple sound cards...

[Dominique D. <dom...@fr...>]

Nyitrai Tamas <li...@de...> writes:

> I think it has something to do with the SBLive "effects". This cards has
> so many registers (sliders) and I do not know really which is which. The
> sound quality is better if I am setting some sliders to zero or to 70/80
> percent. Strange but slider labels are different in alsamixer and
> alsamixergui.
>
> Are these "sliders" documented somewhere?

Yes. You can find explanations in the kernel documentation. 

Here's the file:
/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.6/Documentation/sound/alsa/SB-Live-mixer.txt

Location may depend on your distribution.

Cheers