Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:49:51 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Rong-En Fan <rafan@freebsd.org> Cc: Steve, Ames <steve@energistic.com>, Matthias Apitz <matthias.apitz@oclc.org>, Piet Delport <pjdelport@gmail.com>, multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/devel/pwlib and multiple sound devices Message-ID: <20080711074951.100037zloqohmbgg@webmail.leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20080706110137.GD2606@svm.csie.ntu.edu.tw> References: <20080706110137.GD2606@svm.csie.ntu.edu.tw>
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Quoting Rong-En Fan <rafan@freebsd.org> (from Sun, 6 Jul 2008 19:01:37 +0800): > [please CC me, I don't subscribe multimedia@] > > Hi multimedia@, > > Sometime ago, I committed a patch in PR 122584 in order to make > Ekiga happy with other KDE applications. However, a user informed > me that the patch makes Ekiga to use only dsp0. > > According to sound(4), one should not directly use specific > sound device (i.e., dspX nor dsp). Since I'm not familiar with > the sound(4) framework. Can someone who is familiar with sound(4) > shed us some lights? You should use '/dev/dsp' (or better, the user should be able to chose which, but as long as you are not willing to implement such a feature in the GUI, take /dev/dsp, as this will allow to let the admin of the system set a default of which pcm device to use by default, in case of more than one device). Bye, Alexander. -- Do you mean that you not only want a wrong answer, but a certain wrong answer? -- Tobaben http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137
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