On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 10:20:21PM +0300 or thereabouts, Mihai Popescu wrote: > > 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. >
Thank you for the reply. I had omitted to mention that I had in fact read the manpage and studied the output of "mixerctl -av" before reporting. I'd cured my own problem and was merely trying to be helpful within my capabilities. Your efforts are greatly appreciated. Moss
