Re: [Alsa-user] softvol is broken in latest ALSA

[Takashi I. <ti...@su...>]

At Sat, 29 Nov 2008 03:59:31 -0600,
Val wrote:
> 
> Hello. 
> 
> I am having trouble with the 'softvol' plugin in the newest version of
> ALSA and I would appreciate some help.
> 
> Here is what's happening. Yesterday I was running with this config:
> ---------------------------------
> Driver version:     1.0.14rc1
> Library version:    1.0.13
> Utilities version:  1.0.13
> ---------------------------------
> 
> and 'softvol' was working great. There were, however, other problems
> which forced me to upgrade to this:
> ---------------------------------
> Driver version:     1.0.18a
> Library version:    1.0.18
> Utilities version:  1.0.18
> ---------------------------------
> 
> This fixed my original problem, but broke a much more important to me
> 'softvol' plugin functionality.
> 
> Here is the relevant config:
> ---------------------------------
> pcm.nforce "plughw:nForce2,0"
> pcm.audiophile "plughw:M2496,0"
> 
> pcm.softvol {
>     type            softvol
>     slave {
>         pcm         "audiophile"
>     }
>     control {
>         name        "SoftMaster"
>         card        M2496
>     }
> }

You should use plug over softvol, not in the reverse order.


Takashi