I've tried hard to get ioctl && all the other .ph files to werk. I had to run h2ph on like 7 different .h files to fulfill all the embedded require's but I've tried tons of stuff for the past hour to tweak my new /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux/linux/soundcard.ph file so that it'd let my little script run to no avail. My little test is: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

require 'ioctl.ph';
require 'linux/soundcard.ph';

my $data = 0;

open MIXR, "</dev/mixer" || die "Can't open mixer!\n";
ioctl(MIXR, &MIXER_READ(0), $data) || die "Can't ioctl!\n";
close MIXR;
print "data: $data\n";

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This results in:

Use of uninitialized value at (eval 621) line 1.
Can't ioctl!

&& the eval ending on that line looks like another normal one: 
eval 'sub SEQ_PITCHBEND {
    local($dev, $voice, $value) = @_;
        eval q( &SEQ_V2_X_CONTROL($dev, $voice,  &CTRL_PITCH_BENDER, $
+value) );
}' unless defined(&SEQ_PITCHBEND);

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If you can possibly point me in a better direction, I'd really appreciate it. I've been pounding my head against this for a long time && can't seem to go anywhere with this. I'm feeling really surprised at how difficult this seems to be in Perl! Maybe it's appropriate since it's one of the "hard/possible" things but it seemed like it should be "easy/easy". Anyways, I'm probably just gonna cave in && use C if I can't get Perl to do it within the next day or so. I really wanted to be competent enough to get this to werk on my own but I'm left to conclude that I'm really not experienced enough with Perl || Linux to do this alone yet. Thanks for any help or encouragement you can offer. I'm feeling kinda down (I thinq the caffeine is wearing off). TTFN.

-PipTigger
p.s. Mr., would you please help my pony?

In reply to Re: Changing volume in Linux with Perl? by PipTigger
in thread Changing volume in Linux with Perl? by PipTigger

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