HAL, sound cards and laptops

Lennart Poettering mzuny at 0pointer.de
Fri Aug 11 08:25:35 PDT 2006


On Fri, 11.08.06 17:18, Lennart Poettering (mzuny at 0pointer.de) wrote:

> If /dev/dsp has the "oss.type" of "pcm" /dev/audio should, too. Let's
> not forget that this device is only for PCM and not for MIDI or
> anything else. And it is a SunOS/Solaris compatibility kludge. Hence
> I'd vote for "pcm-sunos-legacy" or "pcm-sunos" or so.

Oops, sorry. that shoul read like this:

If /dev/dsp has the "oss.type" of "pcm", then /dev/audio should have that
string in the name, too.

Sorry for the confusion!

Lennart

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