From owner-freebsd-multimedia Fri Oct 26 2: 2: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E97E137B410 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 02:01:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (root@spare0.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.114]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA28301; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 18:31:44 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20011026085030.YFPE13021.fepE.post.tele.dk@there> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 18:31:44 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Bjarne Wichmann Petersen Subject: Re: hw.snd.pcm0.vchans Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org, Willem van Engen Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 26-Oct-2001 Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote: > > Do I have to do something more to get the virtual channels working? > > What is virtual channels? How does it work? It allows you to multiplex your sound cards playback channels by mixing sound in the kernel. cd /dev sh MAKEDEV snd0 sysctl hw.snd.pcm0.vchans=4 Then point apps at /dev/dsp0.X (where X is 0 to 3) Easy :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message