Please CC replies as I'm not subscribed. I seem to be having some problems with sound ioctl's. I've attached a short c file that opens /dev/dsp, prints the fd, tries to issue SNDCTL_DSP_NONBLOCK ioctl, then does the same with /dev/audio. Both calls to ioctl for NONBLOCK yield Invalid Invalid argument. I've searched the kernel source under drivers/sound/ to see if/where this ioctl is defined. grep -rl SNDCTL_DSP_NONBLOCK drivers/sound/* drivers/sound/audio.c drivers/sound/cmpci.c drivers/sound/cs4281/cs4281m.c drivers/sound/cs46xx.c drivers/sound/emu10k1/audio.c drivers/sound/es1370.c drivers/sound/es1371.c drivers/sound/esssolo1.c drivers/sound/i810_audio.c drivers/sound/maestro.c drivers/sound/maestro3.c drivers/sound/msnd_pinnacle.c drivers/sound/sonicvibes.c drivers/sound/trident.c drivers/sound/vwsnd.c drivers/sound/ymfpci.c Now I'm using a via chipset embedded sound. lsmod via82cxxx_audio 16496 0 (autoclean) soundcore 3472 2 (autoclean) [via82cxxx_audio] ac97_codec 8352 0 (autoclean) [via82cxxx_audio] So none of the files that use SNDCTL_DSP_NONBLOCK were compiled for my kernel. I came up with a question and 2 possible solutions. Question: Are all ioctl's valid for all devices within a major block? Solutions: 1. Turn on CONFIG_SOUND_OSS so sound.o is produced, however the Configure.help says, "...Say Y or M here (the module will be called sound.o) if you haven't found a driver for your sound card above, then pick your driver from the list below. 2. Determine a way to tell which ioctl's a particular driver supports. Any ideas here? -- Gordon Sadler
#include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <sys/ioctl.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <linux/soundcard.h> int main() { int fd, fd1, ver; if((fd=open("/dev/dsp",O_WRONLY))<0) perror("open "); printf (" %d is fd...\n",fd); if (ioctl(fd, OSS_GETVERSION, &ver)<0) perror("ioctl "); printf (" %x is version...\n",ver); if (ioctl(fd, SNDCTL_DSP_NONBLOCK, NULL)<0) perror("ioctl "); close(fd); if((fd1=open("/dev/audio",O_WRONLY))<0) perror("open "); printf (" %d is fd1...\n",fd); if (ioctl(fd1, SNDCTL_DSP_NONBLOCK, NULL)<0) perror("ioctl "); close(fd1); return 0; }