On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 07:46:50AM -0700, Bob Miller wrote: > Jacob Meuser wrote: > > > % mixerctl -a > > > > Is there anything like that in Linux? I tried > > Granted, Linux's man pages suck.
Well, I must say gentoo's have been fairly decent. I only found a few small things about emerge that didn't behave as advertised. Considering the maturity of gentoo, that's perfectly understandable (so long as the inconsistencies do eventually go away). The pcmcia-cs package has pretty good manpages also. That's how I figured out how to fix what was broken. > But the command you want is > > % aumix -q > > It does have a man page. I'm familiar with aumix ... I was looking for something smaller. 'emerge search mixer' found smixer; nice 'n tiny :) > > % man -k mix > > mix: nothing appropriate I think it didn't find anything because gentoo is a pretty small "base" distro. I was actually hoping someone would say something like: $ echo 80 > /proc/sound/master.out or some such. Now, that would be neat. > Check your MANPATH. A recent change to man is that you can have a > null component in your manpath which man will replace with the default > path. E.g., instead of > > /home/kbob/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man:usr/man > > Use this. > > /home/kbob/man:/usr/local/share/man: > > The distributions have started dribbling man pages all over the disk, > and the default path will be both long and volatile, controlled by > some file in /etc. I didn't think to check MANPATH. I bet this is it. -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
