On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, AP - Simon Blandford wrote:
> Hi Clemens,
>
> >> Now I don't feel easy about this because I have no idea what ipc_key
> >> means or where the magic number came from.
>
> >The ALSA library uses a mechanism called IPC to communicate between
> >multiple processes. The key is required to identify cooperating
> >applications, and must be a unique number. Usually, it's some random
> >number.
>
> Thank you for the info. That's solved that mystery.
>
> >You need to tell the application to use the ALSA PCM device named
> >"dsnoopy". "/dev/dsp" is an OSS device which doesn't support PCM plugins.
> >(I don't know if Helix Producer does support ALSA devices at all.)
>
> So there's no way to make this work with Alsa's OSS emulation? Sorry if that's a
> silly question :-O
You need to use the alsa-oss package (and use 'aoss' script which this
package provides). It will route the OSS application via alsa-lib which
contains the dsnoop plugin. This function is not available with the
kernel ALSA OSS emulation.
Jaroslav
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Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SuSE Labs
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