OSS Audio question

Adam K Kirchhoff adamk at voicenet.com
Sun Apr 25 16:21:04 PDT 2004


Emiel Kollof <coolvibe at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Sunday 25 April 2004 15:05, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
>> Are there any plans of supporting multiple access to /dev/dsp
>> like currently exists in FreeBSD 5.*?

> It already exists, try:

> sysctl -a | grep vchan

> To see the relevant sysctls

My understand, which is often wrong, is that vchan's don't actually 
allow multiple apps to access /dev/dsp0, but instead create numerous
virtual channels that can be acessed through dsp0.1, dsp0,2, etc.

Unfortunately, I'm not in front of my dbsd box, so I have no way of
testing this now :-)

Adam






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