Re: cannot adjust audio balance with OSS on old iBook

[Frank Murphy <murphyf+deb-ppc@f-m.fm>]

> > Others seeing this? Any ideas where this problem might lie? Because it
> > happens in two audio apps, I imagine it's a lower-level problem. Anyone
> > seeing the same thing with ALSA?
>
> Is this one of the round clamshell-style iBooks? I don't think I was
> able to discern from the DACA mixer-control code I used as a reference
> how to do it, so I just never took separate channels into account for
> the DACA mixer-control code when I wrote that stuff. (Frankly, I was so
> happy to have mixer control at the time, balance control didn't really
> cross my mind.) I'm guessing no one's played with it since then.

Yeah, it's one of the grey-and-white 1 1/2 generation iBooks. Most of the 
hardware is the same, just a slightly faster processor and bigger HD.

So I started messing around to get ALSA on this box. Took a while, and the 
sound was not very good (pops and things). However, I installed alsaplayer, 
and when using it with oss, the balance controls work properly. It seems that 
both aumix and xmms have the same bug. But the device works like it should.

Frank

Frank