---------------------- X M M I X version 1.2 patchlevel 2 ---------------------- by Ti Kan Xmmix is a sound mixer utility for the X Window System using the OSF/Motif interface. It requires the Unix Sound System (formerly "VoxWare") sound driver by Hannu Savolainen (hannu@voxware.pp.fi) and from 4front Technologies. This driver is also known as the Linux sound driver. See notes below about how to get the sound driver. This version of xmmix has been tested by the author with the sound driver version 2.4, 2.5, 2.90, 3.0 and 3.5. It is expected to work with earlier and future versions. The OS platforms supported by xmmix is the same as those supported by the sound driver, which includes several UNIX variants for the Intel x86 PC: Linux FreeBSD NetBSD Interactive (ISC) UNIX SCO UNIX, Open Desktop and Open Server Sun Solaris/x86 2.x UNIX SVR4.2 (UnixWare and others) It should be fairly easy to port the sound driver to other PC UNIX platforms. Likewise, the sound cards supported by xmmix are those that the sound driver supports. Currently, this includes most of the popular sound cards. Please see the your sound driver documentation for a list. The sound driver web page (listed below) also contains a list of cards that are supported by the most current version. Comments and questions about the sound 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 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 "xmmix@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 v1.2 is available via Internet anonymous FTP. Location: (Instructions) ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/xmmix/xmmix-1.2.README (gzip'd tar archive) ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/xmmix/xmmix-1.2.tar.gz Some FTP sites are not secure, as it is commonly allowed for anyone to anonymously post to them. The xmmix web page (see below) lists the checksum of all xmmix-related packages, so you can check that your copy is genuine. 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). XMMIX WORLD WIDE WEB HOME PAGE ------------------------------ For those of you with access to the WWW (via Netscape, NCSA Mosaic or other WWW browser), The URL for the xmmix home page is as follows: http://sunsite.unc.edu/~cddb/xmmix/ This home page provides up-to-date information about the current release version, online README file, FTP service to get the software, an interactive form to send comments and suggestions, and late breaking announcement, if any. You are invited to visit this space and make use of its services. WHERE TO GET THE SOUND DRIVER ----------------------------- The sound driver source code files are included with each Linux kernel source code release. It can also be obtained via anonymous FTP from the following directory: sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/kernel/sound The most up-to-date information about the sound driver can be obtained via their web site at: http://www.4front-tech.com/usslite or http://personal.eunet.fi/pp/voxware (European mirror) WHERE TO GET XMCD ----------------- Xmcd files can be obtained via anonymous FTP from the following directory: ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/xmcd CHANGES SINCE PREVIOUS RELEASES: -------------------------------- Since Ver 1.2 patchlevel 1: ---------------------------------------------------------- - Another fix to make xmmix compile correctly on systems installed with the new USS and USS/lite sound driver product. - Minor changes for internationalization and multi-byte character sets. Since Ver 1.2 patchlevel 0: ---------------------------------------------------------- - Fixed to parse the /dev/sndstat output of the USS/Linux driver correctly. Since Ver 1.1 patchlevel 0: ---------------------------------------------------------- - Modifications to support the sound driver version 3.5.