On 08/02/14 16:09, Isaac Dunham wrote: > On Sat, Aug 02, 2014 at 11:55:23AM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: >> Sorry for the delay, had to wade through 57 spam messages to find this. >> (The number of messages winding up in the spam filter isn't huge yet, >> but I was sidelined for a couple weeks by household issues.) >> >> On 07/29/14 17:15, Bradley Conroy wrote: >>> /* mix.c - A very basic mixer. >>> * >>> * Copyright 2014 Brad Conroy, dedicated to the Public Domain. >>> * >> >> Added to pending. >> >> Two questions: >> >> 1) about the name: when I type "mix" at the ubuntu command line it says >> I can get it by installing the package "anon-proxy" which seems >> unlikely. Is there a tool this is based on? >> >> I know of an existing aumix (which has a different interface), and >> alsamixer (ditto)... > and cmix, ossmix, and a large number of other mixers.
And pavucontrol, and... >> 2) Is this at all likely to work on android? I don't know what audio >> subsystem they use. (This is... alsa? When I run it it says "/dev/mixer: >> no such file or directory".) > > I should be able to answer the questions, though I wasn't the author. > (We had some discussion related to this on the Puppy Linux forums.) > > 1) There's nothing it's really based on, other than the general > concept of a command line mixer. mix was pixed because that's what it does. Ok. I was just wondering about namespace pollution, since this doesn't specify that it's an audio mixer. (It could be some sort of a cryptographic function, or a text processing thing I hadn't heard of...) Still, the help says when you try it, so... > 2) /dev/mixer and /dev/dsp are OSS3, which you can handle on ALSA-based > systems by loading snd-pcm-oss and snd-mixer-oss (the first loads > the second). > If you use this approach, ALSA does not have a separate volume control. > OSS is not supported in standard android kernels, though it would be > possible to enable it. Possibly it should try to insmod the modules when the /dev entry isn't there? > (3: "what is this for, anyhow?": > testing sound on Aboriginal builds. I didn't enable sound in any of the target kernels and I dunno what qemu would support if I did, but yay sound. > 4: "why on earth is it using OSS3?": > I think it's because using the ALSA kernel interface sucketh...) This I have heard repeatedly... Ok. Thanks. Rob _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
