Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 07:05:49 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@iaces.com> To: Wayne.Vinson@Colorado.EDU (VINSON WAYNE HOWARD) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /dev/mixerstat Message-ID: <199910111205.HAA25202@iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.991010222940.24085B-100000@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> from "VINSON WAYNE HOWARD" at Oct 10, 1999 10:41:03 PM
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In a previous message, VINSON WAYNE HOWARD said: > > This question has been plaquing me, and I don't know where to post it, but > this is supposed to be for "questions," so here goes: > > I have OSS demo for my sound system, and it appears to be configured > properly. > > I can cat .wavs to /dev/dsp0 or /dev/dsp1 and get a (predictably bad) > output. Now, here's the problem. My system came with /dev/dsp a symbolic > link to /dev/sndstat and /dev/mixer a symbolic link to /dev/mixerstat. > Well, I obviously can't cat audio to the sound status device, and > dev/mixerstat doesn't even exist! (MAKEDEV can't make it either). Of > course all the sound programs I try to use don't work as a result of this > mess. So, what should dev/mixer and dev/dsp be liks to? > > Thanks in advance for the help, and cc me 'cuz I'm not on the list. My /dev/dsp* is: $ ls -l dsp* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 4 Jun 24 1998 dsp -> dsp0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 3 Mar 25 1998 dsp0 crw--w--w- 1 root wheel 30, 19 Mar 19 1998 dsp1 $ ls -l sndstat mixer mixerstat ls: mixerstat: No such file or directory lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 6 Jun 24 1998 mixer -> mixer0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 6 Mar 25 1998 sndstat And I'm using OSS. -- WHAT MOST PEOPLE ARE THINKING WHEN THEY SAY "I LOVE YOU" "Some lovers might be real nervous, so they are glad that they finally got it out and said it and now they can go eat." --Dick, age 7 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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