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

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

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