Good answers. Thanks. Martin McCormick
Nicolas George writes: > In short: ALSA. > > In long: the kernel devices for ALSA are present in /dev/snd/, but > applications are not supposed to access them directly, they are supposed > to > solely rely on the API exposed by the ALSA library, libasound. This > library > uses that to offer features that we would not like to be implemented in > kernel space, including virtual sound devices that do not map to any > kernel > device. The most useful features of libasound are the plug and dmix > plugins: > plug converts any format provided by the application to a format supported > by the underlying device; dmix allows sharing the same hardware device > between several applications without a server; plus, of course, user > configuration. > > If you are using Linux, unless you are using the third-party (IIRC, > partially proprietary) OSS drivers (and you would know it), then you are > using ALSA and /dev/dsp is almost completely useless. > > Other Libre operating systems still use the OSS API. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150716155511.46cdd22...@server1.shellworld.net