Re: Sound on a PowerBook G3 Firewire
On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 19:12, Stephen van Egmond wrote:
> > /dev/audio (I know cat english.au > /dev/audio produceds the nice
> > sound of Linus' soothing voice. ^_^)
>
> Audio hardware.
>
> > /dev/dsp
> > /dev/mixer (Kinda know what this is.)
>
> Published by your mixing software - alsa or esound. These daemons open
> /dev/audio exclusively and publish a nicer interface (that can't be locked,
> more or less) thorugh the above points.
Huh? /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer are the OSS (Open Sound System) I/O and
mixer devices, respectively. /dev/audio is the Sun audio compatibility
device. All of them are different interfaces to one and the same kernel
sound driver. ALSA isn't a daemon but the Advanced Linux Sound
Architecture, a replacement for OSS which provides compatibility for it.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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