On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> Olivier Galibert wrote:
>
> > Make simple things simple, guys.
>
> Sorry for hijacking the thread, but it is very true. ALSA is just too flexible
> so that the ALSA equivalent (if it indeed exists) of
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=339951 cannot be fixed. OSS
> allows specification of device name, and one can set up udev rules so that
> e.g. /dev/dsp-creative it is always a symlink to a SB PCI sound card and
> /dev/dsp-fortemedia is for FM801. Then one can tell xine to play sound through
> /dev/dsp-fortemedia. ALSA accepts only numbers in its plughw:x,y,z notation,
> and applications are unfixable when kernel device numbers become random.
It's not true. You can also use plughw:CARDID,0 or so notation.
Identification of cards are available via control interface or look
to /proc/asound/cards file. The card ID string can be set via
a module option. Also you can fix the card index numbers with
a module option.
Jaroslav
-----
Jaroslav Kysela <[email protected]>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SUSE Labs
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Stuff]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
[Linux Resources]
