Bug 566565 - snd-ice1720: VT1720/24 Envy uses weird mixer control names
Summary: snd-ice1720: VT1720/24 Envy uses weird mixer control names
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 14
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Jaroslav Kysela
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-02-18 19:55 UTC by Lennart Poettering
Modified: 2012-08-16 18:28 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-08-16 18:28:38 UTC
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Patch from kernel-2.6.32.26-175.fc12 (1.38 KB, patch)
2011-08-31 15:28 UTC, Josh Boyer
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Description Lennart Poettering 2010-02-18 19:55:51 UTC
Apparently the ice1720 driver uses mixer control names that are very different from the names everybody else uses and there is not really a reason for it as far as I can see.

Given that PulseAudio depends on established names for mixer elements to make sense of them, I'd hence like to ask the mixer element names to be renamed to more common names. 

More specifically what I have in mind goes something like this:

"PCM" → "Front" (since it apparently only controls FL and FR, nothing else)
"PCM Center" → "Center"
"PCM LFE" → "LFE"
"PCM Rear" → "Rear"
"PCM Side" → "Side"

Alternatively, PA could learn about these mixer names. But if we do this I'd like to know a really good reason why the driver uses those weird names.

Comment 1 Kyle McMartin 2010-02-18 20:04:30 UTC
ACK. All the other subdrivers seem to be named sensibly... Fixing now.

Comment 2 Kyle McMartin 2010-02-18 21:41:56 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> ACK. All the other subdrivers seem to be named sensibly... Fixing now.    

Renamed in F-12 CVS for now, will be in the next build.

regards, Kyle

Comment 3 Jaroslav Kysela 2010-02-19 09:22:03 UTC
I put item "unify and define the real meaning of the control names" to my TODO list for the ALSA driver.

Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2010-07-30 10:52:12 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 14 development cycle.
Changing version to '14'.

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Comment 5 Josh Boyer 2011-08-31 13:47:55 UTC
This bug was fixed in an F-12 errata kernel, but the patch never made it into the F-13 CVS branch (or any other), so the rename never happened on any kernel other than F-12.  Google doesn't show a submission of the patch upstream either, but I might have missed that.

Apparently this is still causing problems for people in F-15 (see bug 499435).  Do we want to bring the patch back and push it to the ALSA devs?

Comment 6 Jaroslav Kysela 2011-08-31 15:21:12 UTC
Could you attach the patch from F12?

Comment 7 Josh Boyer 2011-08-31 15:28:01 UTC
Created attachment 520846 [details]
Patch from kernel-2.6.32.26-175.fc12

Here you go.

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