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Subject: Re: Sound mixing question
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On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 07:54:39 -0700
Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> wrote:

> Hello,
>     I was wondering if there was any sort of native sound-mixing
> support built into FreeBSD 5.4 or anything that could be used for
> sound mixing devoid arts or esd.

Yup, there is. :)

hw.snd.maxautovchans
hw.snd.pcm0.vchans

Those sysctls will allow you to see the number. :)

You will then see /dev/dev/0.1 and so on...

Check out the man for pcm for more info.