soundinfo(1)

📦 version 2.3.10, in debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble

💖 soundinfo — the manual, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, welcome to soundinfo(1) from the Linux System Manual. yes it's a real page, yes it's from the 90s, and yes it's still serving. let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

soundinfo — describes parts of the Linux Sound system support. that's it. that's the whole job. she's a narrator, not a fixer 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

soundinfo [options]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so soundinfo describes parts of the Linux Sound system support in the current kernel. that's the vibe. it prints its lil findings out to stdout, and honestly you're probably gonna want to pipe that output thru' your favorite pager, because nobody wants to scroll manually in this economy 😭

ngl, right now it only shows the capabilities and features of /dev/mixer and /dev/dsp. that's the whole menu.

and if your devices have different names — like, say, you've got more than one sound card, or you're just plain perverse :-) — then bestie, the move is to edit the source file and recompile. iconic DIY energy. no cap. 🫶

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -h — display usage and help info. she's short, she's sweet, she's the only flag. periodt.

🎀 EXAMPLES 🎀

(the original page has literally nothing here. no examples. zero. nada. she left it blank and honestly? respect.) 💀

🍓 FILES 🍓

(also empty in the original. no files listed. the emptiness is canon.) 🙈

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

(empty too!! the original just… didn't. no cross-references, no friends, just vibes.) ✨

💀 BUGS 💀

(the original lists none. so either she's perfect or nobody filed anything. iykyk.) 👑

💜 COPYING 💜

okay so this is the part where we get legal, but make it fashion:

Copyright 1995-2008 Jim Jackson

the software described by this manual is covered by the GNU General Public License, Version 2, June 1991, issued by:

Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
675 Mass Ave,
Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

and now the permissions, word for word, because we do not mess with licensing:

  • permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual, provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. ✅
  • permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one. ✅
  • permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions, except that this permission notice may be included in translation instead of in the original English. ✅

three permissions. all slayed. all preserved. don't touch the notice bestie 🫶

🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

Jim Jackson

Email: jj@franjam.org.uk

and that's the whole page!! 💖 this was Release 1, dated 27 Oct 1996 — a true vintage icon, still hitting different. thanks for reading with me, bestie, go pipe something thru' a pager for me 🎀✨

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