Hi all, I'm having some apps running on my desktop that all want exclusive access to my sound device just for playing audio (and a single app for capturing), namely: * TeamSpeak (VoIP team voice chat) * Cedega (for playing some win32 games on my beloved box) * KDE/arts (my desktop wants to play some sounds as well wtf) While I could easily disable my desktop sounds, and yeah, forget about the music, but I'd still like to be in TeamSpeak (talking to friends and alike) while playing a game using cedega. Unfortunately, *all* those stupid (2) apps want exclusive access to the OSS layout of my ALSA drivers, though, there just came into my mind to buy a second audio device and wear a second headset (a little one below/under my big one). But I couldn't find it handy anyway :( So, in the end, what about writing a virtual OSS driver that can spawn multiple (fake) /dev/vdsp%d's that all allow audio rendering (output) and at least a single one capturing (this at least would fit *my* needs). This virtual driver then would has to know about the real audio device then of course that would it use to merge/mix the audio outputs to and to read the requested capture data from. Okay, neat idea, but I never ever wrote a single kernel code line! So, can some guys of you please help me out there in *either* telling me where to find the basics on kernel module writing *and* how to do such things like I said I want. Or, even if you feel that happy about that idea and can't wait until I got stuck in finishing it, and you can DIYS, that would be even much nicer. C/C++ is not my problem, and I have already seen/read the linux kernel code not just once, but I am definitely laggin in experience in kernel development. Please help. Thanks in advance, Christian Parpart.
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