Jan Weil wrote: > Generally, there are two ways to achieve OSS compatibility. > 1) You can load snd-*-oss kernel modules which will generate /dev/dsp* and friends. > This is what you obviously did. > 2) You can make an app believe that there is a /dev/dspX by preloading the aoss > library. This is what you did in addition to 1). > > So currently you have a native OSS device, some emulated devices and you try to use > aoss. > Are you sure you need both of the latters? no, I'm not sure :) > Have you any reason for using aoss in favour of the kernel level emulation? no, I don't, I just don't know enough about the ALSA OSS emulation... > Assuming your snd-*-oss modules are setup correctly you should be able to access > your alsa card through /dev/dsp1, leading to > sox -t ossdsp -r 44100 -c 2 -w /dev/dsp1 -t wav tmp.wav well, I tried, and it doesn't work: $ sox -t ossdsp -r 44100 -c 2 -w /dev/dsp1 -t wav tmp.wav sox: Can't open input file '/dev/dsp1': No such device even though: $ ls -l /dev/dsp1 crw------- 1 darkeye root 14, 19 Dec 11 17:25 /dev/dsp1 > For further information see the OSS-Emulation.txt file contained in the alsa-driver > documentation. thanks, I will consult that... Akos
