FESCo Meeting Summary for 20090424

[Bill Crawford]

Adam Williamson wrote:

> "Adam, you are misunderstanding how SPDIF in ALSA works. The special
> device "spdif:" will toggle all mixer controls appropriately. It will
> hence work properly an all cards -- and if it doesn't it's an ALSA bug.
> Hence the profile logic PA exposes should provide *complete* SPDIF
> experience -- fiddling with low level alsa mixer controls should never
> be necessary."

Which almost begs one to ask: what happens when there are two orthogonal 
  boolean controls involved? Four "profiles" to cover them?