At Mon, 6 Aug 2007 22:29:46 +0300, Vasily Khoruzhick wrote: > > On 6 August 2007 you wrote: > > At Sun, 5 Aug 2007 19:11:23 +0300, > > > > Vasily Khoruzhick wrote: > > > Hi, how to access to alsa device from kernel space? > > > I want to create driver for virtual soundcard, that will perform mixing > > > and rate converting in kernelspace, and put result in real hardware. But > > > I found no documentation how to open alsa device in kernel space :( > > > > You shouldn't do it. It'd be horribly messy. > > If you'd like to access the device files of other hardwares, simply > > use the user-space solution. > > > > > > Takashi > > Btw, why there's oss-emulation in kernel? AFAIK it can't use pcm-plugins (e.g. > dmix), so oss-applications that try to play through /dev/dsp can't produce > any sound, or they block soundcard and other programs can't use it. Because the OSS API _requires_ the kernel device file. We have user-space aoss wrapper, too. Takashi _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
