On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 15:57:21 +1300 (NZDT) Derek Smithies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > Thanks for your quick reply Nick. > > I am not running devfs - it is not on those boxes. > > Alsa is not an option - I have a program that I have written and it works > fine (with OSS) on a third box. Trouble is, that third box has just one > sound card. The third box has a es1371:5880 soundcard. > Now, I have to run it with 6 cards (new requirement). No problem - sound > is handled by classes etc, and it "should" just open up the new devices. > Is it a codeing problem - yes - I don't want to spend time rewriting for > alsa. yes i see, i don't know if alsa with alsa's oss emulation layer would help, or just land you back where you are right now. If this code is to last through the 2.6 series you may need to consider changing to the alsa api anyway as oss is pretty well deprecated in favour of alsa (which as i said has an oss emulation facility). i know thats not what you want to hear! > > The annoying thing is that getting these cards to go should just be a > matter of a configuration somewhere. (Which in theory is minutes of work) > So I prefer the configuration fix. if only all the world was as it should be.... but more than one sound card is not a typical setup (although i imagine there are plenty doing it for musician/mixing type work) - so it won't be as ironed out as the more normal situation. sounds like an interesting project... > > Derek. > =================================================================================== > On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Nick Rout wrote:
