On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 10:48, Gary Montalbine wrote: > ed tharp wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 09:46, Gary Montalbine wrote: > > > >> I am trying to get a program working that wants to access my > >> Soundblaster Live card through /dev/sound. Specifically the audio > >> file in that directory. However all the files in dev/sound are empty. > >> Soundblaster and audio programs work. Is there some other way to > >> access the sound card? I am using ML9.1. > >> > > > > /dev is a 'virtual file or directory', but really should have a > > /dev/sound/audio. are you loading devfs? > > > > what program? > > > > maybe a link from /dev > > The program is linpsk. A ham radio program that takes the audio output > from the radio into the line in on the sound card. It takes the audio from > the sound card and puts it in a display window showing the waveform and > from that you get text. The program asks for /dev/audio. This points to > /dev/sound/audio which is an empty file. In fact all the files in > /dev/sound are empty. > > How can I tell if I am loading devfs? Where is it? > > Thanks, > Gary > well they are virtual files,,,, they should be empty and I bet you do have devfs running as long as you are running a pretty recent version of MDK.
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