This one needs further investigation, I'm a bit unhappy about the way the sound 
handling within grml-autoconfig as well as the XF86Audio* scripts works 
nowadays.

Alex/z3ttacht: what's the current state of this issue? It's related to Issue625 
and I'd like to merge it into grml-scripts. Anything speaking against it?

thx && regards,
-mika-

Updated the skript to be more read- and maintainable. At least I hope
so. (o;

* Frank Terbeck [20090218 16:30]:

> > > Can we see some code somewhere?

> > Damn it! I really forgot to attach the patch. My bad!

> Heh. That's okay. I don't have the time to review right now, though...
> Mika?

Yeah, Alex is working on an updated patch, I'll take care of it then
(but no need to hury). I highly appreciate Alex's work in this area
cause it's bugging me since quite a long time already and I never
had the time to work on it.

regards,
-mika-

Alexander Steinböck <bts@bts.grml.org>:
> 
> Alexander Steinböck <z3ttacht@grml.org> added the comment:
> 
> > Can we see some code somewhere?
> Damn it! I really forgot to attach the patch. My bad!

Heh. That's okay. I don't have the time to review right now, though...
Mika?

Regards, Frank

> Can we see some code somewhere?
Damn it! I really forgot to attach the patch. My bad!

Alexander Steinböck <bts@bts.grml.org>:
> New submission from Alexander Steinböck <z3ttacht@grml.org>:
> 
> The big changes by this commit are:
> 
>   * Existence of '/etc/grml/lsb-functions' isn't mandatory anymore.

-v?

>   * Just using amixer(1) for querying and setting the various mixer. Before
>     amixer(1) _and_ aumix(1) were used. But amixer doesn't work with
                                              ^- aumix, I presume?

>     grml-medium 2008.11 due to lack of module snd-mixer-oss. [s. Issue625]
> 
>   * A 'config file' for parameters to osd_cat(1) is used, which gets read by
>     grep(1). Therefore changes according osd_cat's settings can easily be made
>     in just one place for every instance.

Read by grep!?

>   * No temporary file is used anymore.

That certainly sounds good.

>   * `XF86AudioRaiseVolume' changes `XF86AudioLowerVolume' with the help of
>     sed(1) on the fly, since the two scripts just differ in two places.
>        1. amixer -q --sset Master 5%-  vs.  amixer -q --sset Master 5%+
>        2. Lowered volume               vs.  Raised volume

I don't see where sed fits into the picture here.
Can we see some code somewhere?

Regards, Frank

The big changes by this commit are:

  * Existence of '/etc/grml/lsb-functions' isn't mandatory anymore.

  * Just using amixer(1) for querying and setting the various mixer. Before
    amixer(1) _and_ aumix(1) were used. But amixer doesn't work with
    grml-medium 2008.11 due to lack of module snd-mixer-oss. [s. Issue625]

  * A 'config file' for parameters to osd_cat(1) is used, which gets read by
    grep(1). Therefore changes according osd_cat's settings can easily be made
    in just one place for every instance.

  * No temporary file is used anymore.

  * `XF86AudioRaiseVolume' changes `XF86AudioLowerVolume' with the help of
    sed(1) on the fly, since the two scripts just differ in two places.
       1. amixer -q --sset Master 5%-  vs.  amixer -q --sset Master 5%+
       2. Lowered volume               vs.  Raised volume