On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 03:18:57PM +0200, Christopher Zimmermann wrote: > On 05/03/11 22:58, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: > > hack to support legacy audio/midi device naming scheme is almost two > > years old, ok to drop support for it? > > > > -- Alexandre > > > This caught me by surprise. I spent about an hour in gdb and the source > to find out what was wrong. > aucat just told me this: > > % aucat -l -f /dev/audio1 > aucat: /dev/audio1: can't open device > /dev/audio1: failed to open audio device > > I don't know why, but the error message from sio_open about a missing > ':' did not come through. This would have helped a lot. > > Maybe add a note to faq/current.html?
I couldn't agree more. This needs a bit more visibility.
