Re: how to access a sound card in linux using nasm in pure assembly language

Re: how to access a sound card in linux using nasm in pure assembly language

[Michael Blizek]

Hi!

On 02:45 Thu 14 May     , sikandar shah wrote:
> Hello i am a interested in linux development,but there are many resources
> about development in C,C++ in linux but i want to do programming in
> assembly.
> 
> i am using ubuntu 8.0.2 and i want to do some task for which i cant get help
> anywhere
> 
> well i have got this assignment to access sound card or pc speaker in
> assembly using nasm and on linux operating system.
> 
> till now i have got to the point that we use interupt 0x80 for kernel calls.
> but what do we do next.
> also well i found out while searching the net that the calls are associated
> with eax
> and the argument can be upto 5 stored in ebx,ecx,edx,esi,edi

There is a simple low level api you can use which does not rely on user space
libraries:
http://manuals.opensound.com/developer/

...
> 4. how can i make it play something even the system beep

printf("\a");

	-Michi
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