Comment 9 for bug 13185

(In reply to comment #8)

> So for example, for me, "line-in" is considered as playback, because I use it to
> "playback" TV sounds, and don't use it to actually record/cpature anything.

as indicated in the name "line-in" is an input for the sound card ...

> So, most channels have dual-role and are equally at home on both panels, hence
> why I thought that having all of them on a the same panel (but of course, only
> the one you want/chose to see, not the dozens of channels that the sound card is
> capable of), was the best compromise.

I'll ping upstream about this, but the possibility to customize tabs is not easy
to do without complicating the UI and the code.
BTW I'm not sure than your usecase is the standard one. The app should act on
the right volume level (ie: the gnome applet on the master volume, the cd player
on the CD one, a TV viewer on the line use for the TV, etc).

 > But sorry for being picky, I gathered that over the years, when they started to
> put sound chips on mpotherboard, they improperly called it sound "card", as an
> extrapolation, tprobably to avoid confusing the user uselessly.... Okay, let's
> say I have a card ! ;o)

We get enough bug in bugzilla to not start playing with the words used. When I
ask for the card that's for the chip/device/whatever you call that. I'm sure
than if I use "chip" some user will ask what a chip is.

> 0000:00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device
> 01b0 (rev c2)
> 0000:00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce Audio (rev c2)
>
> Ooops, Mea culpa ! ;-) It appears I don't even have a stand alone sound chip
> either ! It's built into the nForce chipset...

thanks, now I've enough informations to talk with the upstreams about the issue.