
Welcome to XATI


WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT:
xati is a simple X11-based tool for setting the volume
and the mix-flag on an ATI Stereo F/X Soundcard.
You can even specify the volume/mixflag on the commandline.
Then there will be no window popped up, which is useful
for startup-scripts. You should call the program therefore
ati and not xati, because this prevents the program from
attempting to connect to a display.

ATTENTION: 
I do not have the technical description of the ports of the ATI-card,
so I just tried the ports until I found some, which seem to work
properly. I would appreciate any comments about better programming
the ports - especially the MIX-Port, for I just set the value
to 0xea for mix on and 0xeb for mix off. I don't know what is all affected
by this, but it works with my computer.

INSTALLATION:
Look at the Makefile and modify the values, if neccessary.
The port settings work fine with my computer; I don't know if
these change if you change the base address of the soundcard.
The program will go to INSTXBIN/xati, the manpage to INSTMAN/xati.1,
and the non-X11 part will go to INSTBIN/ati.

Do -as root- a: make install.

That's it. Call xati when you want to change the volume or mix flag.
Call ati with -v volume or -m [on|off] at startup in your .xsession 
or .xinit-scripts or in the /etc/rc script to set the volume to a default
without displaying the window.

Read the LICENSE and COPYRIGHT, if you are interested in this stuff.

Please report any bugs (and if you like the program, this too) to:

eichner@rhrk.uni-kl.de

AUTHOR:
Torsten Eichner, eichner@rhrk.uni-kl.de
