Re: [Alsa-user] Soundblaster Audigy 2 NX- Still buggy after all these years

[Mark DM <mar...@gm...>]

I am posting what I see ! Perhaps your interpretation is contradictory as
it appears to be with the alsa devs. The point being is that what I can
toggle with amixer and hardware mute on audigy or remote,  is not available
in any mixer control! You can say they are contradictory however what I
need is to change the mute/unmute behavior to conform to the hardware mute
method such as I use amixer for. Amixer is the ONLY available unmute method
when hardware mute is used on Audigy or remote.

I know the xbmc does a different mute because I programmed the xbmc mute on
the remote . Even when deactivated or when not running xbmc the
aforementioned hardware mute buttons behave differently than a software
mute


I have also created situations where the hardware mute is off and the
software mute is on and visa versa



On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 2:45 AM, Clemens Ladisch <cla...@go...>wrote:

> Mark DM wrote:
> > "Master Playback Switch" is clearly missing from the mixer.
>
> > amixer controls shows among other items numid=5,iface=MIXER,name='Master
> Playback Switch'
>
> These two statements are contradictory.
>
> > when I use the remotes mute function (which is also configured to send
> > a mute via XBMC), or the mute on Audigy unit itself, the "mute"
> > indicator on Audigy lights up. Unit can only be unmuted with amixer
>
> The remote's and device's mute buttons work automatically.  Unmuting
> must be handled by some software that listens for these events.
>
> Obviously, nothing is actually listening.  Why do you think that XMBC
> is configured for this?
>
> As far as I know, the only software that can handle the Audigy 2 NX's
> remote events is LIRC: <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LIRC>.
> (Use driver "alsa_usb" and remote "RM-1500".)
>
> > Must always mute with: amixer -c 1 cset numid=5 0
> > Then we can always unmute with: amixer -c 1 cset numid=5 1
>
> Or just use "amixer -c1 cset numid=5 toggle".
>
>
> Regards,
> Clemens
>