Uhm, I don't know how to solve your problem, but if what you want is possible
it's (also) possible with ALSA 0.9.0rc1 . And note this from
www.alsa-project.org:
*** N.B. The 0.5.x series is considered deprecated and is no longer supported
by ALSA developers ***
On Tue, 21 May 2002 09:59:26 +0700
Alain Fauconnet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have Alsa 0.5.12a running on a Linux 2.2.19 box with a Yamaha DS-XG
> PCI (YMF754) based PCI card.
>
> I can play fine. OSS devices mapping works OK for playback as well
> (using Real Player etc.).
>
> Now I would like to use Speak Freely. This programs talks to the
> OSS /dev/audio device. I cannot get any input from the microphone.
> Alsa mixer settings are OK since I can record using:
>
> arecord -d2 file.wav
>
> and play it back.
>
> I suspect that the problem is that Microphone input somehow maps to
> device #2 (see -d2 option above, needed) and that /dev/audio maps
> only device #0.
>
> I have tried:
>
> insmod /lib/modules/2.2.19/misc/snd-pcm-oss.o snd_dsp_map=2
>
> to alter the mapping. Recording from /dev/audio or /dev/dsp then
> works, but I loose the playback device:
>
> cat foo.au >/dev/audio
> /dev/audio: No such device.
>
> I also have tried:
>
> insmod /lib/modules/2.2.19/misc/snd-pcm-oss.o snd_dsp_map=0 snd_adsp_map=2
>
> but then I can't find any /dev/audio to use to point to the equivalent
> of /dev/adsp. Furthermore, in this case, recording from /dev/adsp is
> horribly distorted (although recording from /dev/dsp works OK when I use
> snd_dsp_map=2)
>
> I'm stuck here... considering doing a dirty hack into pcm_oss.c to
> hardcode device mapping... ugly... Not even sure this is possible.
> There *has* to be something better to do !
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Greets,
> _Alain_
Good luck!
-Frans
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