Stupid Sound Question

[kwall@kurtwerks.com]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 05:21:26PM -0700, 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?

char major=14,minor=6:

6 = /dev/sndstat      Sound card status information {2.6}

In any event, it was removed from 2.4. From $KERNEL/Documentation/sound/NEWS:

"=== /dev/sndstat and /proc/sound are gone

In older Linux versions those files exported some information about the
OSS/Free configuration to userspace. In Linux 2.3 they were removed because
they did not support the growing number of pci soundcards and there were
some general problems with this interface."

> >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?

Do you have a PCI sound card? "lspci" should get you started.

Kurt
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