Fedora 11 nerfed my mixer

[Matthew Garrett]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:33:47AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 14:13 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > The "bug" is exposing all of the native mixer functionality in the alsa 
> > mixer implementation and then presenting that in the UI. This is 
> > precisely the problem that PA's mixer design fixes.
> 
> No, it isn't. Look closely at both the 'hilarious' screenshots: most of
> the channels are duplicated (in Dave's case) or shown over ten times (in
> Will's). That's why the whole thing is *so* long.
> 
> Just displaying all the available channels wouldn't be a bug in either
> case.

No, what you're seeing there is that the mixer implements various 
different stages for the same channel. In Dave's case it appears that 
they're independently controllable for the input and output paths - note 
that some of the duplicates have "record" and the others don't.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org