Please explain the mixer controls

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Please answer the question!

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This question was expired because it remained in the 'Open' state without activity for the last 15 days.

please answer the question! Expiring in 15 days seems like a policy guaranteed to hide usablility ( and other) issues from the development team.

This question was expired because it remained in the 'Open' state without activity for the last 15 days.

on Wed Feb 04 2009, Sebastien Bacher <question24030-AT-answers.launchpad.net> wrote:

> do you have any issue which is not already described in an another bug?
> bugs are to describe specific issues

If it was described in other bugs, I'd have posted there in the first
place, or would have marked this a duplicate when I discovered
them.

I have expended considerable effort here trying to describe the problem
for the benefit of the community, and this sort of response is extremely
discouraging.

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Because of bug #259945 even the on-line help is not available in gnome-volume-control. This is slated to be fixed in the next release.

For what it's worth, the manual is available on-line at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-volume-control/ (an overview of some of the available mixers is in the Preferences section at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-volume-control/2.24/prefs.html.en) but it doesn't describe all available controls (and probably could not, because they are apparently a moving target, provided by ALSA outside the control of the volume control applet) and fails to provide an overview of the underlying architecture.

http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/AlsaMixers might add to the confusion rather than reduce it, but at least it's another pointer to what is hopefully a reasonably authoritative source for ALSA documentation.

(Side note: as per bug #129497 this question should not be expired as long as it's linked to an open bug. Reminder to $self, report a regression if that happens anyway.)