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To: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
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Subject: Re: another lingering weirdness 
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Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 16:42:17 -0700
From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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Hi,

I guess what we need is an ioctl to set the mapping . The cards and
sometimes even the models vary so from our perspective the best
thing to do is to set them at runtime.

	Tnks,
	Amancio

>From The Desk Of "Louis A. Mamakos" :
> 
> This has been around for quite a while, but I always chalked it up to
> header file mismatches.  On my system, the mixer(1) command doesn't
> have the right mapping of labels to inputs.  For instance:
> 
> louie@whizzo[79] $ mixer
> Mixer synth    is currently set to  26:26
> Mixer pcm      is currently set to  58:58
> Mixer speaker  is currently set to  84:84
> Mixer line     is currently set to  65:65
> Mixer mic      is currently set to  64:64
> Mixer cd       is currently set to  26:26
> Mixer mix      is currently set to  11:11
> Mixer igain    is currently set to   9:9
> louie@whizzo[80] $  
> 
> The thing listed as "cd" isn't; to change the level of the audio
> coming from the CDROM drive audio connection you have to fiddle with the
> "synth" mixer input.
> 
> At least the "pcm" mixer control corresponds to the right thing, as does
> the "line" mixer input.
> 
> This is with a GUS PnP board:
> 
> louie@whizzo[82] $ cat /dev/sndstat
> VoxWare Sound Driver:3.5-alpha15-970806 (Wed Aug  6 22:58:35 PDT 1997 Amancio
 
> Hasty@rah.star-gate.com)
> Config options:
> 
> Installed drivers:
> Type 4: Gravis Ultrasound
> 
> 
> Card config:
> Gravis Ultrasound at 0x230 irq 11 drq 5,7
> 
> Audio devices:
> 0: GUS PNP (CS4231) (DUPLEX)
> 1: Gravis UltraSound (DUPLEX)
> 
> Synth devices:
> 0: Gravis PNP (1024k)
> 
> Midi devices:
> 0: Gravis UltraSound Midi
> 
> Timers:
> 0: System clock
> 1: GUS
> 
> Mixers:
> 0: AD1848/CS4248/CS4231
> 1: Gravis Ultrasound
> louie@whizzo[83] $
> 
> If the API could be reworked (or perhaps just augmented), it would be nice
> to be able to ask the driver on the system what the mapping was rather
> than rely on constants in the header file.  I guess in a perfect world
> this wouldn't be a problem, but in my world, it's not doing the right 
> thing :-)   Inevitablely, the magic numbers in the header files have to
> be "right" to ensure compatibility with the voxware and OSS drivers..
> 
> louie
> 
>