Re: Sound userspace drivers (fishing for insight)

[John Richard Moser <nigelenki@comcast.net>]

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Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Wed, 08 Mar 2006 13:56:06 -0500,
> John Richard Moser wrote:
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>> Takashi Iwai wrote:
>>> At Wed, 08 Mar 2006 11:17:26 -0500,
>>> John Richard Moser wrote:
>>>>>> into the kernel; with alsa it's written to a /proc interface, which
>>>>> Using /proc? Where? I've not noticed it :-)
>>>> I thought that was what /proc/asound/card0/ was for?  :)
>>> /proc is not referred from alsa-lib, i.e. programs don't access them.
>>> It's just for users who want to read some information.
>>>
>> This makes me wonder then how stuff is set up.  There's no device, is
>> there a sound card syscall now?
> 
> You must have /dev/snd/* files, and the access is via normal
> syscalls...  Check strace of your program.
> 

Ahh nice, I was always looking for /dev/dsp :>

> 
> Takashi
> 

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