Re: [OT] Re: What netbook to you run NetBSD on? (-> netbook.xml)

[buhrow%lothlorien.nfbcal.org@localhost (Brian Buhrow)]

        Hello. I thought NetBSD-4 and later had a /etc/rc.d/mixerctl  file
which consulted /var/db/mixer0.conf, /var/db/mixer1.conf, etc.  to set up
defaults at boot time?    Does this not actually work in -current?
-Brian

boot time.  Does this not actually work in -current?
-Brian

On Oct 22, 11:33pm, "Steven M. Bellovin" wrote:
} Subject: Re: [OT] Re: What netbook to you run NetBSD on? (-> netbook.xml)
} On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:44:57 -0400
} "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost> wrote:
} 
} > > >
} > > >Exactly, I had to write a shell script to use mixerctl to set up
} > > >sound for
} > > > my internal speakers or to send output to the head phones.
} > > >Each time I need to change the sound level I have to type mixerctl
} > > >-w outputs.lineout=xyz,xyz
} > > >This sucks big time...
} > > 
} > > Why don't you stick it in /etc/sysctl.conf
} > > 
} > I do that.  I also did some magic with xmodmap and fvwm to make the
} > volume keys on my T61 useful.
} > 
} Correction -- I don't use sysctl.conf because that handles, well,
} sysctl; to my knowledge, mixerctl manipulates a different namespace.
} (I'd be delighted to learn I'm wrong.)  Instead, I invoke mixerctl from
} rc.local.
} 
}               --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
>-- End of excerpt from "Steven M. Bellovin"


On Oct 22, 11:33pm, "Steven M. Bellovin" wrote:
} Subject: Re: [OT] Re: What netbook to you run NetBSD on? (-> netbook.xml)
} On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:44:57 -0400
} "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost> wrote:
} 
} > > >
} > > >Exactly, I had to write a shell script to use mixerctl to set up
} > > >sound for
} > > > my internal speakers or to send output to the head phones.
} > > >Each time I need to change the sound level I have to type mixerctl
} > > >-w outputs.lineout=xyz,xyz
} > > >This sucks big time...
} > > 
} > > Why don't you stick it in /etc/sysctl.conf
} > > 
} > I do that.  I also did some magic with xmodmap and fvwm to make the
} > volume keys on my T61 useful.
} > 
} Correction -- I don't use sysctl.conf because that handles, well,
} sysctl; to my knowledge, mixerctl manipulates a different namespace.
} (I'd be delighted to learn I'm wrong.)  Instead, I invoke mixerctl from
} rc.local.
} 
}               --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
>-- End of excerpt from "Steven M. Bellovin"