Stupid Sound Question

[Tony Alfrey]

On Wednesday 23 October 2002 05:21 pm,Net Llama! wrote:
> On 10/23/2002 05:11 PM, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> > Sorry, but a sound question.
> > In the 2.2.~ kernel, one could do
> > cat /dev/sndstat
> > and see the configured devices and sound card info.
>
> Hrmmm...i never knew of anything in /dev that could be catted with
> output.  You sure that wasn't a /proc feature?

See below.


>
> > In the 2.4.~ kernel, apparently this does not work.
> > a)  Is this something I'm doing wrong?
> > b)  Is there an equivalent command for the 2.4.~ kernel?
>
> What did the output look like under a 2.2.x kernel?  I'm not clear on
> the functionality you were getting.

It would look like this:

?OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130 
?Load type: Driver loaded as a module 
?Kernel: Linux noname.nodomain.nowhere 2.2.14 #1 SMP Thu Feb 17 
?11:49:42 MST 2000 i686 Config options: 0 

?Installed drivers: 

?Card config: 

?Audio devices: 
?0: Sound Blaster 16 (4.16) (DUPLEX) 

?Synth devices: 
?0: AWE32-0.4.3 (RAM512k) 

?Midi devices: 
?0: AWE Midi Emu 

?Timers: 
?0: System clock 

?Mixers: 
?0: Sound Blaster 

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Tony Alfrey
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