[alsa-devel] OSS emulatior can not create enough device files for me

[Vedran Miletić]

You have /dev/dsp and /dev/dsp[1-7], right?

2008/8/26 Taipei Techwell <techwell.taipei at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
> I am working on an ALSA audio driver for my device which is very similar to
> BT878. It will have at least 8 audio devices in a single card. Now, the
> audio driver is working correctly. I can use aplay to play the audio file
> which is created by arecord. To identify audio devices, I am using hw:1 ~
> hw:8 dvice description for my audio devices, because hw:0 is the sound card.
> In order to make the old application work, I know that ALSA emulates all my
> devices to have OSS nodes respectively. I guess that It should have /dev/dsp
> to /dev/dsp8, and /dev/dsp is for sound card, and /dev/dsp1 to /dev/dsp8 are
> for my audio devices. However, I can not find /dev/dsp8 in my system. I
> guess ALSA can only emulate 8 audio device totally. That the reason I can
> not see the 8th audio device. Am I right? How can I create the /dev/dsp8
> manually?
> By the way, if someting is wrong above, please correct me. Thank you.
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Vedran Miletić