[linux-audio-user] CLI mixer for envy24 cards?

Edward Barrow edward at copyweb.co.uk
Tue May 24 05:20:41 EDT 2005


Mario Lang wrote:
  >
> The day I am going to buy a M-Audio card (which is fairly soon I hope),
> I will have to rewrite envy24control in a NON-GUI fashion.  All my boxes are headless,
> because I can not use graphical UIs at all.
> 
> I know this is no immediate help for you, but it might show to others
> that it is indeed a good idea to go with the KISS idea:  I.e., if you
> write something as essential as a mixer control, PLEASE dont wrap it up in a GUI
> by default, but make the underlying functionality available in some generic way,
> such like as a library, or as a command-line tool.
> 
> In any case, when I get my M-Audio and finish raping envy24control,
> I'll let the list know.  Its all just C code after all...
> 
thanks to other suggestions I got the x11 forwarding working with much 
less pain than I had feared, and I must say that envy24control is a 
pretty good tool.
But I'm fully-sighted so it was an option for me, although I would 
certainly prefer a non-gui tool

-- 
Edward Barrow



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