| Summary: | kmix - master channel missing | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] kmix | Reporter: | Alan Braslau <alan.braslau> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Christian Esken <esken> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | ambrop7, andresbajotierra, Ben.Kevan, mail, nadavkav |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | unspecified | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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Alsamixer channels |
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Description
Alan Braslau
2008-08-07 20:52:13 UTC
On my systems (I have two PCs with Intel HDA-based sound chips), the "Master" channel from alsa is called "Front" in kmix (and thus, I have two "Front" channels in kmix). Is that the same with your case? Version 3.0 Using KDE 4.1.1 (KDE 4.1.0 (4.1 >= 20080722)) (KDEmod) in ArchLinux i686: I also experience the behaviour described in comment 1. My "Master" channel is named "Front" Created attachment 26758 [details]
KMix channels
Created attachment 26759 [details]
Alsamixer channels
On Friday 08 August 2008 09:28:39 George Kiagiadakis wrote: [bugs.kde.org quoted mail] Yes, indeed, there is a "front" channel. How should one guess that this is what used to be called "master"? I see the logic of being able to assign the "master" channel in kmix, but the name change is less than obvious. I got stung as the channel was set to 0 (and muted) by the kmix upgrade. I also have two "Front" channels in kmix because it renames the Master to Front, while my card has its own Front. I see no reason for renaming any channel, it only causes confusion, e.g. in "Select master channel". It also makes it impossible to assign keyboard shortcuts for the real Front channel as it uses the channel's name as an identifier. And there are really many cards with a Front channel. So, please remove the unnecessary renaming. The reason for renaming is, because ALSA names the control wrong for many soundcards (The master is no master at all, because it controls only front). This has lead to several bug reports in the past. Now this solution (renaming) also leads to bug reports. The best way is to roll this back. So by default you get "Master" and if you use a XML profile for your soundcard, you can also receive "Front" if you like. SVN commit 876286 by esken: The renaming from "Master" to "Front" confused too many people. Also it looks like we only have a hit ratio of about 50%. => Removing the renaming line from the XML profile. BUGS:168658 M +6 -1 ALSA.default.xml WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=876286 *** Bug 171933 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 172885 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** SVN commit 878601 by esken: Fix "master channel missing" (last pacth was incomplete) CCBUGS:168658 M +1 -1 ALSA.default.xml WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=878601 |