Re: [PATCH] allow volume keys to work without OSS emulation

[John S. S. <to...@to...>]

Matthias Grimm <mat...@us...> writes:
> Hi John,
> I just integrated your module in my distribution and i got some problems you 
> might know a solution for:
>
> 1. Your patch don't compile on my machine out of the box.
>   The problem: The linker doesn't got the alsa libraries after running
>   configure. Have you modified files not included in the patch? I had to
>   modify src/Makefile.am to add the ALSA_LIBS.
>   I updated my autoconf and libasound2 but there was no trick.

Did you run "autoreconf --force" in the top level directory? I did test my patch
on a clean copy of the sources, but I'm not an expert with the autotools. I
thought AM_PATH_ALSA added the alsa libs to LDFLAGS automatically.

> 2. Your module doesn't change volume on my machine (G3 Pismo).
>   The problem: Your module change the master volume channel only (viewed with
>    the alsamixer), but this channel does nothing on my machine. I have to
>   change the PC Speaker volume channel to get a result, but I don't know how
>   to specify that channel in dev_Mixer. What is the right keyword for the PC
>   Speaker channel?
>   Running pbbuttonsd with OSS emulation of ALSA modify both channels due to 
>   the MixerChannels configuration option. Maybe you could use the
>   MixerChannels configuration option to control this too.

Ah, I just assumed that all mixers would have a working "Master". I will try and
get this fixed (by adding the MixerChannels option) this week some time.

cheers,

John