---------------------- X M M I X version 1.1 ---------------------- by Ti Kan Xmmix is a sound mixer utility for the X Window System using the OSF/Motif interface. It requires the "VoxWare" sound driver by Hannu Savolainen (hannu@voxware.pp.fi), also known as the Linux sound driver. See notes below about how to get VoxWare. This version of xmmix has been tested by the author with VoxWare version 2.4, 2.5, 2.90 and 3.0. It is expected to work with earlier and future versions. The OS platforms supported by xmmix is the same as those supported by VoxWare, which includes several UNIX variants for the Intel x86 PC: Linux FreeBSD NetBSD SCO UNIX and Open Desktop UNIX SVR4.2 (Novell UnixWare and others) It should be fairly easy to port VoxWare to other PC UNIX platforms. Likewise, the sound cards supported by xmmix are those that VoxWare supports. Currently, this includes: Adlib Creative Labs Sound Blaster series Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum 16 Media Vision Jazz16 based soundcards (ProSonic, 3D etc.) Gravis UltraSound Gravis UltraSound MAX Gravis UltraSound with 16 bit sampling daughter card Roland MPU-401 Microsoft Windows Sound System COVOX SoundMaster II ECHO-PSS (cards based on the PSS architecture by Analog Devices. Including Orchid SW32, Cardinal DSP16 among others). MediaTriX AudioTriX Pro Ensoniq SoundScape SoundMan Wave and others Not all versions of VoxWare supports all of these cards. Please refer to the VoxWare documentation for further details. Comments and questions about the VoxWare driver and utilities should be directed to "hannu@voxware.pp.fi". This distribution now comes with several 32x32 pixmap files suitable for use as an xmmix desktop icon: xmmix.icon - for Novell UnixWare xmmix_a.px - for SCO Open Desktop (XPM2 format) xmmix_b.px - for SCO Open Desktop (XPM2 C format) xmmix.xpm - for other systems that use XPM format You can use the appropriate icon setup utilities under each of these environments to create an xmmix icon (with which you can use to launch xmmix). Comments, suggestions, and bug reports about xmmix are very welcome! Write to "ti@amb.org". If you have a CD-ROM drive, you are invited to try a full-featured X11/Motif CD Audio Player utility that I wrote. It's called "xmcd" and supports many UNIX OS platforms and CD-ROM drives. Xmmix and xmcd makes an ideal pair in your multimedia system. A non-X command line CD player "cda" is also included in the xmcd package. See notes below about the anonymous FTP location. WHERE TO GET XMMIX ------------------ The source code release of xmmix v1.1 is available via Internet anonymous FTP. Location: (Instructions) ftp.x.org:/contrib/applications/xmmix/xmmix-1.1.README (gzip'd tar archive) ftp.x.org:/contrib/applications/xmmix/xmmix-1.1.tar.gz The package require the "gunzip" (GNU unzip) utility to uncompress. The source code to gzip/gunzip can be found on various FTP sites (such as prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu). WHERE TO GET VOXWARE -------------------- VoxWare files can be obtained via anonymous FTP from the following directory: sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/kernel/sound WHERE TO GET XMCD ----------------- Xmcd files can be obtained via anonymous FTP from the following directory: ftp.x.org:/contrib/applications/xmcd CHANGES SINCE PREVIOUS RELEASE: ------------------------------- - Modifications to support the VoxWare 3.0 sound driver. - Xmmix now queries the driver and updates all on-screen controls each time it receives input focus. This keeps xmmix controls up-to-date in an environment where multiple mixer applications are running on a single sound card. - Added the autoLoadOnStartup and resetOnExit features. See the man page for info. - Fixed a bug that caused some of the Rec toggle buttons to be shown in the wrong state upon startup. - Modified to print more meaningful debugging output when the -debug option is used. - This distribution now comes with several 32x32 pixmap files suitable for use as an xmmix desktop icon. See the README file for details.