Re: possible problems with rc6 aplay

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@attbi.com>]

This sounds like a fine solution Paul. I'll give it a shot.

Thanks!

On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 05:49, Paul Davis wrote:
> >Martin,
> >   That might certainly be an answer. How would this amixer switch get
> >st in the first place? I wouldn't mind doing it by hand once as long as
> >it was then loaded after that.
> 
> what you want is a short startup script (typically in somewhere under
> /etc/rc.d, but unfortunately this varies somewhat from linux
> distribution to linux distribution). it would look like this:
> 
> 	#!/bin/sh
> 	
> 	HAMMERFALL=0 # change to match the card number of the
> 		     # Hammerfall, as shown in /proc/asound/cards
>         CLOCK_MODE=0 # auto-sync, the default condition.
> 	CLOCK_MODE_NAME="autosync"
> 
> 	case $1 in
> 	     start) if [ -f /some/path/to/this-host-is-master ] ; then
> 		        CLOCK_MODE=1
> 			CLOCK_MODE_NAME="master"
> 		    else
> 		        CLOCK_MODE=2
> 			CLOCK_MODE_NAME="word clock"
> 		    fi  
> 		    echo "Setting Hammerfall to $CLOCK_MODE_NAME mode ..."
> 		    amixer -c $HAMMERFALL cset \
> 			    iface=PCM,name='Sync Mode',numid=7 $CLOCK_MODE
>         esac			    
> 	exit 0
> 
> then, just create the file /some/path/to/this-host-is-master on one
> machine, and it will automatically set the Master switch when it boots
> up. the other machine will remain in AutoSync mode - if they are
> connected via word clock, you probably want to change that as well,
> using the same script.
> 
> if you need more help with this, let me know. this is one of those
> areas where linux and its command line orientation proves so powerful
> (though to be fair, its probably possible to do something vaguely
> similar on windows, but not using such general-purpose tools).
> 
> --p




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