Clemens Ladisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is wrong. You name is pcmC0D0p for playback and pcmC0D0c for > capture (in both cases card 0, device 0).
Thank you so much for clarifying this! (Obviously, I missed something crucial in my documentation browsing, I'll go back and look.) > > I tried it with various other pcm* devices in that directory; this > > time they remained 0 bytes -- but still no sounds came out. > > You cannot use these files directly, they need some magic IOCTLs to be > set up propertly. Try "aplay something.wav". Aaaaah. I just tried it; didn't work, but no worry -- this is under an older kernel, I'll reboot to 2.6.0-test1 in a moment and try again. > > I'm fairly ignorant of the voodoo that creates device files -- in fact > > (I'm belatedly ashamed to admit) I don't even know whether they get > > recreated every time the kernel boots, or if they're somehow "really > > there" in the filesystem, as directory entries or inodes with special > > meta bits. > > Both. ;-) It depends on whether you're using devfs. Ah, okay. I'll Google "devfs" to find out the rest of that answer... :-) Thanks for the response, -Karl ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
