alsa mixer seting totally ridiculous!!! just have to vent before i take a break and try again!

[Charles Hallenbeck]

So use amixer.

On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote:

> You know, I expect to do a lot on my machine; I like to work a lot on my
> machine. But spending hours and hours trying to change mixer settings and having
> two or three change because you changed one is not my idea of fun.
> If it's really expected that many people are going to use alsa, a more
> user-friendly way of handling this mixer stuff needs to be developed.
> at one point, I thought I almost had my mike working; one false move and I had
> feedback. right now my mike isn't working at all again. Not because I was
> disorganized and changed a buncyh of things without checking the results; I
> didn't! But with all these settings and permutations thereof, it's almost
> impossible not to make one thing worse while making something else better.
> On the positive side, my sound playinc cds and listening to radio stations, etc.
> is better; some of the tone could use some work but it isn't bad. But am i going
> to mess that up the next go-around with trying to get the mike to work? Who
> knows! I don't mind good honest hard work, but there ought to be an easier way
> to do this.
> You mess up a setting and it's sort of like the old song about the organist who
> played a beautiful chord and then spent the rest of his life looking for it.
> Perish the thought!
>
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