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From:
Johannes Thyssen Tishman <jtt@openbsd.org>
Subject:
Re: NEW: audio/siosw
To:
Edd Barrett <edd@theunixzoo.co.uk>
Cc:
ports@openbsd.org, ratchov@openbsd.org
Date:
Fri, 5 Dec 2025 11:01:58 +0000

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  • Edd Barrett:

    NEW: audio/siosw

    • Johannes Thyssen Tishman:

      NEW: audio/siosw

2025-12-04T22:48:50+0000 Edd Barrett <edd@theunixzoo.co.uk>:
> Hi,
> 
> This is a little ncurses menu that lets you quickly select the default sndio
> audio device (server.device). I wrote it (apparently 3 years ago?!) when
> ratchov@ and I were first experimenting with audio device name support in
> OpenBSD.
> 
> I had initially planned to patch xfce4-mixer to add some kind of selector, but
> the code made my head hurt, so I wrote this instead.
> 
> The device names in the menu are the same short names you'd see from `sndioctl
> -s`. From memory, they are this short due fixed-length array someplace in the
> kernel and/or libsndio that would require an ABI bump to make longer. Even so,
> I find this works well enough.
> 
> Works for you? OK?

Works well for me, thanks! ok jtt@