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.

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