> A small correction needs to be made to the Multimedia faq13. The FAQ rarely needed corrections, until now. The FAQ is not a substitute for man pages! Some nice folks work a lot to keep it to date, to throw a clue to the beginners. But they didn't figured out until now how to convince beginners to read correctly and interpret what they read.
>From the FAQ 13: "All supported audio drivers are already included in the GENERIC kernel, so there is no need for extra configuration or installation of drivers. Running mixerctl(1) with no arguments will list the device's mixer controls and current settings." Again, to remove any doubt, the explication continues: "Some devices have only a handful of controls, some have a hundred or more. Note that not every option of every audio chip necessarily reaches the outside world. There may be, for example, more outputs listed than are physically available on a sound card or motherboard." And again, just to be sure: "The controls of an audio device may be labeled differently. Usually the controls have a meaningful label, but sometimes one must simply try different settings to see what effect each control has." The man page for mixerctl(1): "The exact set of controls that can be manipulated depends on the mixer." The man again: "EXAMPLES Show possible values for all mixer variables, and their current settings: $ mixerctl -av " I see you are a master of grep. Ironically, that stereotype blocked you from real command output.
