ea1...@gmail.com (Ramiro Aceves) writes: >from "man audioctl": > The -d flag can be used to give an alternative audio control >device, the default is /dev/audioctl0.
That's a bit stale, the 'default' symlinks are a new thing. audioctl is trying /dev/audioctl and falling back to /dev/audioctl0 if the symlink isn't there. Similarly mixerctl is trying /dev/mixer and is falling back to /dev/mixer0 when the symlink isn't there.
