[pulseaudio-discuss] Stream volumes as the universal volume adjustment method

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 15.01.10 10:55, David Kågedal (davidk at lysator.liu.se) wrote:

> There is a related case that I mentioned a long time ago. I had a
> Creative X-mod USB card (I sold it, so I can no longer test this). It
> has a big round volume knob that I thought would be nice to use to
> control the volume of the sound coming from the device.
> 
> But no, the volume knob doesn't do that. I simply acts as a keyboard and
> sends increase-volume/decrease-volume keystrokes. This means that it
> would usually (depending on how I configure things) not control what
> comes out of the Xmod, but instead control the main volume (which are
> the internal laptop speakers or headphones.
> 
> The workaround was of course to make the Xmod the "main" device, and use
> the internal card as a secondary. But I was really annoyed by this
> misdesign.
> 
> Could this be solved in PA somehow?

As pointed in the other mail I just wrote, as soon as xinput becomes
available in gtk and some minor fixes are done for uinput we should be
able to do this.

Lennart

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