[alsa-devel] Problem in dummy driver

[Jaroslav Kysela]

On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Himanshu Chauhan wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> I am working on the dummy driver provided with the ALSA. I took it from
> the linux kernel 2.6.20.1
> I build the module and load it. The XMMS seems to play ok (doesn't hang
> and all) but none of
> the recording application seem to record from the driver.
> 
> Can the driver in current state work as the loop back cable between
> applications?

No, it's really dummy driver which eats playback samples and returns zero 
samples for capture. Try use the snd-aloop driver.

						Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex at suse.cz>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SUSE Labs