change default audio device (debian woody)

zhynn · 06-30-2003, 03:02 PM

After installing Debian, i have discovered that the audio device lives in /dev/audio and nigh every app is looking for it in /dev/dsp. how do i change this? or rather, how do i make this better?

thanks,

pol

Salz · 07-01-2003, 06:56 AM

There's no need to change this, Linux supports audio output both through /dev/audio and /dev/dsp. The only difference between them are the default settings of these devices, which every audio app will change to its needs. It only matters if you cat a file to the device for testing purposes. So if /dev/audio works, /dev/dsp does, too.

zhynn · 07-04-2003, 01:07 PM

That was not entirely the case. cat'ing to /dev/audio was successful, but not to /dev/dsp. i explained the problem to a friend and he advised me to delete /dev/dsp and replace it with a sym link to /dev/audio. i did that and now everything works fine. will this fix cause more problems than it solves?

thanks,

zhynn

Salz · 07-04-2003, 04:35 PM

Don't know. catting to /dev/dsp does not work, you are expected to set some parameters via ioctl() first. Every audio app does that, so that is fine.
I suggest you remove the symlink, cd into /dev and run

Code:

MAKEDEV audio