- drop the 'virtual_' prefix from s->virtual_volume since we don't
distuingish between reference and real volumes for sources
- introduce an accuracy for source volumes: if the hardware can control
the volume "close enough" don't necessarily adjust the rest in
software unless it is beyond a certain threshold. This should save a
little bit of CPU at the expensive of a bit of accuracy in volume
handling.
- other minor cleanups
We need to make sure that having both input and output weighs more for
selecting the default profile than a channel map that matches the
default channel map has.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496320
Error from snd_pcm_rewind() might mean we just woke up from suspend and
didn't have a chance to try to recover the stream since we didn't write
to it in between. Call try_recover() in such cases.
Note that for this to work kernel must return ESTRPIPE instead of EBADF
for rewind/forward attempts on suspended streams, so that
snd_pcm_recover() can recognize it should snd_pcm_resume() the stream.
This is not the case yet (2.6.31-rc5), patch is available.
Signed-off-by: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>
Apparently some ALSA drivers aren't happy with getting the buffer size
configured first followed the period size. So swap the order again and
document this for future reference so that we don't turn that around
again.
Completely rework mixer logic. This now allows controlling a full set of
elements from a single sink's volume slider/mute button.
This also introduces sink and source "ports" that can be used to choose
different input or output ports with the UI. (i.e. "mic"/"line-in" or
"speaker"/"headphones".
The mixer paths and device maps are now configered in external
configuration files and can be tweaked as necessary.
This has the benefit that we can properly support ALSA devices where
only the raw 'hw' device exists but no 'front' although it's a proper
2ch stereo device.
The reference volume is to be used as reference volume for stored stream
volumes. Previously if a new stream was created the relative volume was
taken relatively to the virtual device volume. Due to the flat volume
logic this could then be fed back to the virtual device volume.
Repeating the whole story over and over would result in a device volume
that would go lower, and lower and lower.
This patch introduces a 'reference' volume for each sink which stays
unmodified by stream volume changes even if flat volumes are used. It is
only modified if the sink volumes are modified directly by the user.
For further explanations see http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/InternalVolumes
