On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Frank Barknecht wrote: > > Hallo, > Julien Claassen hat gesagt: // Julien Claassen wrote: > > > Generally I think, that the asound.conf isn't the right place to create a > > /dev/dsp-device. This is a real device, as I understand it. It can be accessed > > like a real (or close to real) oss device. What you've been doing sounds like > > just creating alsaplugins. Those are - as I understand it - completely > > different. They are just for alsa-programs and are based on different > > mechanism. > > Well, Akos is trying to use the aoss library, which is designed to do > exactly that: map OSS devices to ALSA devices, that are normally out > of reach of OSS applications, which among others are those defined in > asoundrc-configuration files. > > I don't think, it is possible to use channel 3+4 of a Delta card > directly through ALSA's OSS emulation, so aoss might be the only way > indeed. But I never used aoss for anything besides playback, so I have > no idea if it should work, sorry. > It isn't, or at least I was never able to get it to work. I built Audacity with native ALSA support which was a much better solution anyway, but not what you're looking for. The OSS emulation layer gives 2 channels, I think. // John Bleichert // syborg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx