Re: xmmix installed with pkgin fails ioctl

[Monica Vaida <vaidamonica587%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hello,
Can this change be brought into pkgsrc and the binary repository pkgin
pulls from?
Thank you!

On Fri, 9 Oct 2026 at 21:41, Chuck Cranor <chuck%ece.cmu.edu@localhost> wrote:
>
> hi-
>
> On Thu, Oct 08, 2026 at 03:23:23PM +0300, Monica Vaida wrote:
> > ```xmmix``` installed through pkgin does not start due to a failed ioctl:
> > ```
> > FIOASYNC ioctl failed: Invalid argument
> > SOUND_ MIXER_READ_ RECSRC ioctl falled: Invalid argument
> > ```
>
>
>
> Yeah, I saw that error too.  It looks like it is a bug in xmmix.
>
> xmmix's do_ioctl() ioctl wrapper function typed the second arg
> of ioctl ("unsigned long request") as "int cmd" instead.  this
> type conversion mangled the request value being passed to the
> ioctl syscall and resulted in an "Invalid argument" error for
> a FIOASYNC request on /dev/mixer.
>
> i updated the pkgsrc patch to mixer.c to change the prototype
> of do_ioctl() from "int cmd" to "unsigned int cmd" ... i rebuild
> from src and that resolved it for me.
>
>
>
> That being said, xmmix on my NetBSD hardware does not actually
> do anything.   looking at the output of "mixerctl -a" the problem
> is that there are two master outputs:
>
>         outputs.master
>         outputs.master2
>
> the actual output volume of my speakers is controlled by "outputs.master2" ...
> but the "xmmix" program's master volume slider controls "outputs.master"
> instead.  as far as I can tell, changing the values of "outputs.master"
> does not do anything.
>
>
> hdaudio0 at pci0 dev 3 function 0: HD Audio Controller
> hdaudio0: interrupting at msi0 vec 0
> hdaudio0: HDA ver. 1.0, OSS 2, ISS 0, BSS 0, SDO 1, 64-bit
> hdafg0 at hdaudio0: Intel HDMI/DP
> hdaudio1 at pci0 dev 27 function 0: HD Audio Controller
> hdaudio1: interrupting at msi3 vec 0
> hdaudio1: HDA ver. 1.0, OSS 4, ISS 4, BSS 0, SDO 1, 64-bit
> hdafg1 at hdaudio1: Realtek ALC280
> audio0 at hdafg1: playback, capture, full duplex, independent
> audio0: slinear_le:16 2ch 48000Hz, blk 1920 bytes (10ms) for playback
> audio0: slinear_le:16 2ch 48000Hz, blk 1920 bytes (10ms) for recording
> spkr0 at audio0: PC Speaker (synthesized)
>
>
> hmmm.
>
> chuck