Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 14:56:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de> To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rc.audi Message-ID: <200010021256.OAA10715@monos.secnetix.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009301739130.55185-100000@pike.osd.bsdi.com>
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Christopher Shumway <cshumway@bsdi.com> wrote:
> I've been giving some thought to a more user tuneable way of setting up the
> audio mixer under FreeBSD at boot time. The methiod I have come up with is
> with an /etc/rc.audio script, attached below. Feedback is appreciated, for
> I am thinking of send-pr'ing it as a change request so we can see it as
> part of the base FreeBSD system. Here's the script:
> [...]
I think it's not a very good idea to call the mixer binary
a dozen times. That's very inefficient.
Personally I'm used to have a file /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mixer.sh
with the following contents:
#!/bin/sh -
test -c /dev/mixer || exit
case $1 in
[Ss][Tt][Aa][Rr][Tt]|"")
/usr/sbin/mixer > /dev/null \
vol 75:75 \
pcm 75:75 \
speaker 0:0 \
line 0:0 \
mic 0:0 \
cd 75:75 \
rec 0:0 \
line1 0:0 \
video 0:0
;;
[Ss][Tt][Oo][Pp])
;;
*)
echo "Usage: ${0} start|stop" >&2
exit 1
;;
esac
Maybe something like that should be provided as a
skeleton script somewhere under /usr/share/examples.
Different soundcards support different mixer devices
anyway, and there's no "one fits all".
Another possibility would be to have a file /etc/mixer.conf
that looks like this:
vol 75:75
pcm 75:75 # comment
speaker 0:0
...
And then let /etc/rc read and parse it like this:
if [ -c /dev/mixer -a -r /etc/mixer.conf ]; then
/usr/sbin/mixer > /dev/null \
`sed 's/#.*$//' /etc/mixer.conf`
fi
(I have not actually tried this, but it should
basically work. I'm willing to test this more
thoroughly and submit patches and a manpage, if
there's sufficient interest.)
Regards
Oliver
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