From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ryan Underwood Subject: Re: cs4248 / thinkpad 755 / 755c , patch suggestions [PATCH]] Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 11:05:32 -0500 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20030709160532.GE1031@dbz.icequake.net> References: <20030708173229.GG1030@dbz.icequake.net> <20030708195437.GL1030@dbz.icequake.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Hi, On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 02:39:58PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > > > You are correct, play works correctly but catting does not. It seems, > > however, that many OSS drivers support cat a wav file directly to /dev/dsp, > > and do the detection of the format parameters internally. I guess this is not > > required by the OSS specification? > > really do _many_ oss drivers support these features? > i've never thought of that... Every one I've used has done so (Aureal Vortex2, CS4614, c-media, etc). I don't know if it's the rule but it seems like fairly common behavior from my experience. In any case it's really not a big deal, just that ALSA's OSS emulation seems to be divergent from the typical OSS driver's behavior in that regard. -- Ryan Underwood, , icq=10317253 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Parasoft Error proof Web apps, automate testing & more. Download & eval WebKing and get a free book. www.parasoft.com/bulletproofapps