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> Hello,<br>
> A number of users have intermittently(?) been hitting a crash in<br>
> alsa-lib 1.0.27 [1, 2] related to the softvol plugin. I'm not able to<br>
> reproduce this reliably, so can't find an easy way to debug/fix.<br>
><br>
> However, this raises a tangential question - why do we need softvol to<br>
> be plugged for 'front' at all? David explained to me that this is to<br>
> guarantee the existence of a PCM control. Perhaps I don't fully<br>
> understand this, because I'm unconvinced by the reason. Could someone<br>
> explain/refute?</p>
<p>BecauseĀ alc660 codec did not has any hardware volume control on the output </p>
<p><a href="http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=a327b0925a1697d60ea427fe3f16821d7ef7030b">http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=a327b0925a1697d60ea427fe3f16821d7ef7030b</a></p>