[ANNOUNCE] New Mixer Handling in PA 0.9.16/F12

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 22:07 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Tue, 28.07.09 15:48, Bill Nottingham (notting at redhat.com) wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Lennart Poettering (mzerqung at 0pointer.de) said: 
> > > Please note that it is our intention not to wrap obsolete mixer
> > > controls such as "CD", "PC Speaker", "MIDI" and so on. If you file a
> > > bug asking for those to be wrapped we will disappoint you and
> > > close the bug WONTFIX.
> > 
> > When you mean 'not wrap them', do you mean they're no longer
> > selectable as a record source, if the hardware exports them?
> 
> Yes. You cannot select them as record source, you cannot mute or
> unmute them, you cannot change their volume. "CD", "PC Speaker",
> "MIDI" and so on are just obsolete. 
> 
> If you want to control them you can always install alsamixer or
> gst-mixer or whatever. But really, this controls are obsolete.

so really lennart means 'no' :) they're not selectable via PA's mixer
interface. they will still be selectable via ALSA's mixer interface, and
hence via any alsamixer (alsamixer, kmix, xfce's mixer, gst-mixer as
long as it's around, etc).

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