From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 14 14:51:33 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA08653 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 14 Apr 1995 14:51:33 -0700 Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA08645 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 1995 14:51:32 -0700 Received: from crevenia.parc.xerox.com ([13.2.116.11]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <14401(1)>; Fri, 14 Apr 1995 14:50:48 PDT Received: from localhost by crevenia.parc.xerox.com with SMTP id <49864>; Fri, 14 Apr 1995 14:50:37 -0700 X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6gamma 3/30/95 To: Amancio Hasty cc: "matthew c. mead" , faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner), hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Sound stuff again (GUS MAX) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 12 Apr 95 12:54:38 PDT." <199504121954.TAA13064@star-gate.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1995 14:50:31 PDT From: Bill Fenner Message-Id: <95Apr14.145037pdt.49864@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199504121954.TAA13064@star-gate.com> you write: >>>> "matthew c. mead" said: > > [xvmixer won't let me change the volume on the cd device] > >Usually, the connection from the cdrom to the soundcard is a line input >type which one usually does not have control over the volume. >Typically, one adjusts the volume on the PCM or SYNTH device to adjust >the volume for the CDROM input. It's been a while since I looked at this stuff, but the last time I looked at it, xvmixer didn't query the driver as to what devices were controllable, it just had the SoundBlaster devices hardcoded into it. "mixer", the tty interface, on the other hand, knows about all the devices. I often do something like mixer vol 90 mixer synth 50 mixer cd 30 to play a cd in the background, and to have any /dev/audio stuff louder than the CD for audio biff and such. (I modified "mixer" to print out all the volumes when you run it with no arguments, as well, I think that's much friendlier...) Bill