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From: Brion Vibber <brion@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: XAmixer again...
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On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Christopher T. Lansdown wrote:

> Hi,
> 	I've released another version of XAmixer.  This one should have
> support for the mono channels.

It's working, but oddly enough both Mono 1 and Mono 2 seem to be affecting
the volume from my TV card, whereas only Mono 2 does in alsamixer or my
hacked versions of XAmixer. I'm not sure why, the source looks okay so
far...

>  I've also got the scales going the
> untuitive way, now.  Thanks for how to do that, it was bugging me. :-)
> 	I'm considering how to universalize the channel code, hopefully
> that will be taken care of soon.  Thanks all for the suggestions, xamixer
> is a better program for it.

Jaroslav's suggestion is definately the best way, I just hadn't gotten
far enough in the docs yet to find it... For pixmaps and
prettified/localized names it's probably a simple matter to have a list of
known channel IDs and their pixmaps/labels, and use a generic pixmap and
the channel ID as the label if you don't find a channel in the list.

Perhaps a text config file could contain this list so customized names and
pixmaps could be used without recompiling? For instance I'd like to be
able to make my mixer say "TV" instead of "Mono 2" and maybe have a litte
picture of a TV for the pixmap. ;)

>  Btw, does anyone think that once it
> stabalizes, they will use it?

Yes! I'm a big fan of ALSA since it actually supports that mysterious
"mono" channel that my TV card comes in on, so I don't need to tie up the
line-in with an external cable. A good X-based mixer program is very nice
to have, and the OSS-based ones don't cut it with ALSA. Heck, I'm using
XAmixer _now_, I'm sure it'll be even better when it stabilizes.

>  Also, does anyone have more than one sound
> card?  Can you tell me if my interface does actually work for then all?

Hmm, not right now, but if I take out my modem (which I don't need since
my network connection got fixed a couple weeks ago) I can put in an old
Sound Blaster Pro. ;) If I try it I'll let you know how it works...

Oh, and a thought: if you could include the version number in the name of
the tarball (i.e. xamixer-0.1.4.tar.gz) and perhaps in the directory name
the files in the tarball are in that would be a great help.

-- brion vibber (brion@pobox.com)


