Bug#321305: iaxcomm: fiddles mixer on startup

[Mikael Magnusson]

Nathan Myers wrote / skrev:
> Package: iaxcomm
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> Upon startup, iaxcomm unmutes audio "capture" on the mixer associated 
> with its output device, and sets the sensitivity to an intermediate 
> value.  This is wrong on three levels;
> 
>  - First, it is setting the wrong device; I use /dev/dsp for
>    output and /dev/dsp1 (a quiet usb device) for input, and it
>    opens /dev/mixer.
> 
>  - Second, it is setting the capture sensitivity to the wrong value.
> 
>  - Third, it really shouldn't be messing with the mixer at all.  
> 
> It would probably be useful for it to turn on some warning indicator
> in the "mic" VU meter at the top of its window if capture is muted,
> and maybe it should have a mute button and sensitivity slider there,
> but it should leave the mixer alone unless told to do something.
> Finally, of course, if it looks at a mixer (or mixers!) it should be 
> looking at the right mixer for each use.
> 

I have made a patch that I think fixes the problem. Iaxclient won't 
touch the mixer with the patch if you don't activate analog AGC.

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=7926782&forum_id=29380

/Mikael Magnusson