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Shingetsu

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Registered: 2012-09-15

Posts: 27

.asoundrc controller plugs

Is it possible to make a ctl (rather than pcm) alias work?

Here is my current .asoundrc

Take note that I have "ctl.cheadset" put on the card I need, and I want to make it so both ctl.!default and ctl.dmixer are both set to use it.

I have tried the following (ctl.!default used as example):
ctl.!default {
  type plug
  slave.ctl "cheadset"
}
ctl.!default {
  type plug
  slave { ctl "cheadset" }
}
ctl.!default {
  type hw
  ctl "cheadset"
}
ctl.!default {
  type hw
  slave.ctl "cheadset"
}

looked through available ctl types and none were of the seemingly right kind (there was an oss one and a pulse one, although I have neither installed @_@)

I want to do this so that I have both aliased pcm and ctl at the top of asoundrc so I can easily change the card I'm using if I ever need to.

Is there a common way of doing this that I missed? I found nothing in the wiki of both alsa and arch, as well as after a few hours search on google.