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From: jas@slugvine.demon.co.uk (John Stark)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Soundblaster AWE32 question
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 22:40:33 GMT
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In article <4f662r$omq@ernie.eecs.uic.edu>,
John Scholvin <jscholvi@ernie.eecs.uic.edu> wrote:

[snip]

>I'm guessing I need some kind of mixer program (like the Windoze one) to
>bring up the CD input fader. Any pointers?

In 2.0.5 and 2.1 there's a command-line program "mixer" which will do this.
There isn't a man page for it though.  I don't know whether it existed in
2.0.0.  Alternatively you can write your own program to do ioctl() calls
on /dev/mixer - refer to /usr/include/machine/soundcard.h.
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