Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> writes:
> /dev/dsp is part of the legacy OSS (Open Sound System) interface. If
> you play audio using only ALSA, or ALSA + Pulse, you do not need this
> older interface.
>
> If your software requires the /dev/dsp interface (because it predates
> ALSA), you can try loading the snd-pcm-oss module. At least, that's
> what the IRC bot says to do.
Thank you. I am happy to report that adding snd-pcm-oss to
/etc/modules brought the /dev/dsp interfaces back.
I never did a lsmod on the system a week or so ago to see
what was there when I first saw /dev/dsp and /dev/dsp1 and it
could be that the snd-pcm-oss module was loaded as a result of
installing mplayer although mplayer does not need /dev/dsp and
works fine without it.
When I shut down the system and restarted it today, i did
do lsmod looking for snd-pcm-oss and it was not there. After
placingthe name of the module in /etc/modules, I rebooted so as
to start from scratch and it was there along with /dev/dsp and
/dev/dsp1 for the usb device which now works like a charm.
I must read up on how to code for not needing /dev/dspx
to fix the real issue here.
The software I wrote doesn't predate oss but some
documentation I red years ago that probably does predate oss was
what I used to wrige some C routines that send and receive sound
plus use ioctl to set, say, /dev/dsp or /dev/dsp1 for stereo at
32000 samples per second.
I used that to make a stereo sound card record 2
independent 8-K 8-bit audio channels from two radio scanners
Music stinks when recorded that way but scanner audio has
such a limited pass band that it sounds pretty decent.
Many thanks.
> It also pointed me to <http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/NoLinuxDevDsp>,
> if that's of any help.
I will save this message and also learn the correct way
to send and receive audio these days.
Martin
