[pulseaudio-discuss] BEEEEEEP

[Tanu Kaskinen]

su, 2010-01-24 kello 13:12 +0000, Colin Guthrie kirjoitti:
> Hi,
> 
> Someone asked recently about the Beep mixer in alsa. With a PA enabled
> setup, controlling the Beep volume (when this is exposed via alsa)
> becomes awkward.
> 
> What is the best way to handle this? Could we tie it/slave it from the
> master volume via the alsa mixer profile stuff perhaps?

Are you talking about the PC speaker beep? How is controlling its volume
more awkward with PA than without?

We probably could tie the Beep element to the sink volume in the alsa
mixer configuration stuff, but that alone doesn't seem like a default
choice that always makes sense. If I use headphones, I may or may not
want the volume to follow the sink volume: at home I might want that,
and in a library I probably wouldn't want that.

I think the best choice would be to control the PC speaker volume
independently from anything else. At server side it could be implemented
as a separate module that would provide a separate client API.

-- 
Tanu Kaskinen