On Thursday 10 March 2005 08:41, James Wilkinson wrote: >Steven W. Orr wrote: >> I'm running KDE and there's a huge list of sliders for controlling >> sound and I just don't know what they're for. >> >> Can someone point me to a reference? Also, how can I tell which >> ones are useful? I have a SBLive! card. > >You have discovered the Mixer Of Doom! > >The SBLive is a rather complex chip for a sound chip, with a lot of >digital signal processing capability. Apparently, the ALSA driver, > by default, provides some programming for the DSP, and exposes this > through the mixer. Hence, a rather complex mixer. > >IEC958 appears to be the standard behind S/PDIF, the Sony/Philips >Digital Interface Format, which is what is normally used for digital >output. Given that, a number of sliders names become clearer. > Thanks for that clarification. I've also wondered about that myself. If it has to do with S/PDIF, whyintuncket was it named IEC958 in the first place? Patches to reduce that bit of confusion should be tendered. >More information can be found in the Linux source tree (or, if you > have kernel-doc installed, under /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.10) > at Documentation/sound/alsa/SB-Live-mixer.txt or on the Web at > http://lwn.net/Articles/64341/ > >Hope this helps, > >James. >-- >E-mail address: james | History books in Ireland and Scotland are > littered @westexe.demon.co.uk | with the 'wrong' spelling, and > there is no law that > > | tells you how to spell whisky. The Welsh > | even spell it 'chwisgi', which makes sense > | after two or three large ones. -- > | http://uk.glenfiddich.com/world/faqs/ -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.34% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
