[mythtv-users] and-hda-intel alsamixer has no 'Master' control

[Steve Adeff]

On Wednesday 16 November 2005 20:31, Kirby Bakken wrote:
> I have a Gigabyte GA-K8N51GMF-9 motherboard; this board has a Realtek
> ALC880 chip.  I'm also running a gentoo 2.6.13-r3 kernel.  After I
> managed to find the ALSA device driver 'package' on the Realtek site,
> and got it working, I still couldn't get any sound out of Mythtv...  I
> had the sound device set to 'ALSA:default', and the mixer to 'default'.
> I finally decided to try changing the source code in audiooutputalsa.cpp
> and change the code that was specifying 'Master' to instead specify
> 'Front'.  Lo and behold, sound now works in mythtv.
>
> I don't know how/why the alsamixer for the snd-hda-intel device I has a
> 'Front' and no 'Master' control.....  all I know is that it doesn't work
> the way it is, and my change made it work....
>
> How would I suggest to the mythtv 'development guy(s)' that this might
> be a good addition?  Or was there an easier way to fix/change what I had?

the ALC880 should work fine with the regular intel AC'97 ALSA driver. Did you 
use the .asoundrc that floats around? audiooutputalsa.cpp is correct in using 
Master, it is more compatible with how things are supposed to work, you then 
use .asoundrc to "fix" for your issue.

Steve