Comment 10 for bug 1440675

We have a section in the manual talking about the hardware setup. This
sounds like an excellent place to put these hints. We have graphs there
with hardware routing and everything. If one wants to properly setup
mixxx he will look into that section of the manual (if he doesn't I
can't do much to help him).

http://mixxx.org/manual/latest/chapters/setup.html

Besides if a novice user just opens alsamixer there is a good chance he
has no idea what it is and how to use it. That doesn't help it just will
make him more confused. It will not be clear to him why mixxx even opens
alsamixer instead of some pulseaudio settings.

On 04/19/2015 02:06 AM, Daniel Schürmann wrote:
> The manual it too far away to fix this instant issue. From my experience
> the novice user did not know that there are hardware mixer on the sound
> card, so he probably has no idea what to look for in the manual.
>
> If we follow Be's suggestion and open alsamixer with the master
> soundcard selected and in "all" view, the button offers some extra
> value.
>
> @Max, do you alternative idea to improve this situation?
>
> How about a short hint in the hardware preferences:
> "Be sure the sound card mixer are set up. This can be checked using "alsamixer" from the command line."
>
> Or
>
> "Read in the sound card manual how to setup the sound card mixer"
>