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Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Christian Fischbach wrote:
>
> .......
> 
> > Can I control the mayor / minor numbers in any way, because I like to have
> > two mixers: /dev/mixer for playbackmixer and /dev/mixer1 for recordmixer.
> 
> These things are managed by highter levels. You should register second
> mixer for soundcard by simply:
> 
>         snd_mixer_register(mixer, 1);
> 
> Where 1 is mixer device number... Zero is first mixer for soundcard, one
> is second mixer for soundcard...
> 
> Note: Second mixer cannot be accessed from OSS compatible programs...
> 
>                                                 Jaroslav
> 

I think is better to have 3 mixer device:
/dev/mixer0	To change both record and playback volume
/dev/mixer1	To change only playback volume
/dev/mixer2	To change only record volume

In this way OSS compatible program will work anyway and other programs
can use ALSA power ;-)
Obviously only if they known our mixers numbering convention...

Perhaps it's better again to add to ALSA the notion of record mixer
separated from the playback mixer.
What do you think about this?

