From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 15 09:29:22 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA16036 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 15 Apr 1995 09:29:22 -0700 Received: from goof.com (root@goof.com [198.82.204.15]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA16029 for ; Sat, 15 Apr 1995 09:29:21 -0700 Received: (from mmead@localhost) by goof.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA26383; Sat, 15 Apr 1995 12:29:22 -0400 Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 12:29:22 -0400 From: "matthew c. mead" Message-Id: <199504151629.MAA26383@goof.com> To: Bill Fenner Cc: Amancio Hasty , faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner), hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Sound stuff again (GUS MAX) 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> Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 -- Matthew C. Mead -> Virginia Tech Center for Transportation Research - -> Multiple Platform System and Network Administration Work Related -> mmead@ctr.vt.edu | mmead@goof.com <- All Other ---- ------- WWW -> http://www.goof.com/~mmead --- -----