Re: bug

From: Maarten de Boer <maarten@resorama.com>
To: "Nikita N." <nikitan@operamail.com>
Cc: "alsa-devel@alsa-project.org" <alsa-devel@alsa-project.org>
Subject: Re: bug
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 12:26:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D1185AE0-6829-4E51-AD60-EED3D63B677F@resorama.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1503311111460.13892@lnxricardw1.se.axis.com>

Hello,

I am the author of alsamixergui. I am not actively maintaining alsamixergui anymore (and haven’t been for years). It is pretty much coincidence that I saw this mail thread; a slightly more informative subject would have helped.

There is not much that I can add to this thread (thanks everyone for your replies), but in short:

- alsamixergui is just a graphical frontend, and exposes the mixer capabilities of the sound card in the same way alsamixer, amixer or any other alsa mixer does, so this is not alsamixergui specific. (strongly based on the alsamixer code (verbatim) with fltk gui code added to it.).

- this is not a software problem, this is a hardware problem. The user adjusts the mixer to cause a feedback between speaker and internal microphone, and leaves this running for >30 seconds, and his hardware can’t deal with it. It is probably not even operating system specific.

Finally, I really don’t like the tone you use, Nikita, particularly your talk of “exposing the individuals guilty” and your accusations of secrecy. And "expose clearly to the public that tool as a virus/malware, and inform the antivirus authorities about it.”, really? Good luck with that.

If you want to blacklist alsamixergui from your distro, please go ahead, but don’t forget to blacklist alsamixer and amixer too, as well as any other alsa mixer front ends.

Maarten

On 31 Mar 2015, at 11:14, Ricard Wanderlof <ricard.wanderlof@axis.com> wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 31 Mar 2015, Nikita N. wrote:
> 
>>> alsamixergui is not created by the ALSA 
>>> project, so this mailing list is the wrong place to look if none other 
>>> than for that particular reason.
>> Sure, we would be very grateful if you could point that out, so we can
>> contact the individual who programmed this tool
>> Unless it's not a secret or there is smtng to hide.
> 
> I have no idea who wrote it, Clemens posted a link but at to me it seems 
> dead, there should be something in the source code (perhaps that's where 
> he got it frome?). Could very well be that it was written by someone who 
> has since moved on to other things so that any links or email adresses are 
> outdated. It's not necessarily a secret, it could just be unknown at this 
> point, and if the person who wrote it is not actively maintaining it any 
> more there's probably little to be gained from contacting him.
> 
> /Ricard
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