Volume Control-2.6.0 lost multi-sound card information

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sat, 2004-04-24 at 18:10, supraexpress at globaleyes.net wrote:
> A patched Volume Control for (FBSD) Gnome-2.x (2 <= x <=4) provided for
> two significant changes that were very nice:
> 
> 1) multiple audio devices resulted in multiple tabs, one per device,
>    which controlled the specific audio devices' settings
> 
> 2) each audio device had its manufacturers' name in the tab field rather
>    than a system or raw device name
> 
> These Volume Control changes appear to have not been incorporated into
> Gnome-2.6.0 and I would like to see them included and made a part of the
> base [FBSD] Gnome environment.

gnome-volume-control has changed dramatically since 2.4.  It now uses
gstreamer to control the mixer.  The mixer name is obtained on 5.X using
an OSS ioctl.  On 4.X, this ioctl does not exist, and thus the name
cannot be found.

Joe

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