Re: Tragic State of FreeBSD Audio/Sound

On 7/20/26 12:38, vermaden wrote:
>>> I will not even start about PITA syntax of mixer(1) which went into
>>> this:
>>>
>>> % mixer -f ${DEV} vol.volume=+0.05
>> Just use gtk-mixer, avail in ports.
>>
>> In recent years, I haven't noticed any bugs
>> in the operation of the OSS.
> I do it by scripts anyway ... but I needed to rewrite all my scripts because of these changes ... and this change in syntax was bad from at least three perspectives:
>
> 1. It happened in 'point' release (like from .2 to .3) - not in new major release - breaking stuff for EVERYONE.
>
> 2. It happened without any reason - the tool could do the same with old syntax underneath - the new syntax does not introduce anything new - it just has different syntax.
>
> 3. As FreeBSD (at least up to some time ago) cherished the POLA principle WHY the old syntax could not been also kept and accepted?
>
> ... and yes - I also think that 'gtk-mixer' works well - so is 'dsbmixer' tool.


It offered something new to me: Confusion. In the past, I'd need to 
fiddle with the mixer once a year and it was more or less obvious how it 
worked. The last time, I just gave up.

-Matthew