Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 12:29:22 -0400 From: "matthew c. mead" <mmead@goof.com> To: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> Cc: Amancio Hasty <hasty@star-gate.com>, faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner), hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Sound stuff again (GUS MAX) Message-ID: <199504151629.MAA26383@goof.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, April 14, 1995 14:50:31 PDT References: <199504121954.TAA13064@star-gate.com> <95Apr14.145037pdt.49864@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
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On Fri, April 14, 1995 at 14:50:31 (PDT), Bill Fenner wrote:
> In message <199504121954.TAA13064@star-gate.com> you write:
> > > [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.
Hmm. xvmixer seems to query the driver for what devices are
installed. It gives the same list as the snd-util-2.5 version of mixer.
The thing is, it doesn't detect anything other than synth, pcm, line, and
mic. This is for a GUS MAX.
> 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...)
Do you have a GUS, or some other card?
-matt
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