Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 13:34:28 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: "David J. Kanter" <djkanter@northwestern.edu>, FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Which /dev for "device pcm" in kernel? Message-ID: <20000712133428.A237@parish> In-Reply-To: <200007120012.e6C0C5n01056@ptavv.es.net>; from oberman@es.net on Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 05:12:05PM -0700 References: <20000711183526.A249@localhost.localdomain> <200007120012.e6C0C5n01056@ptavv.es.net>
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On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 05:12:05PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 18:35:26 -0500
> > From: "David J. Kanter" <djkanter@northwestern.edu>
> > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 04:46:20PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote:
> > > Yes, but don't forget that /dev is not in your $PATH (unless you added
> > > it) so you must do ``./MAKEDEV''
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > I can only think that you mistyped. This is what you should have:
> > ---end quoted text---
> >
> > You were right. So I did ./MAKEDEV snd0 in /dev, then rebooted. Still,
> > there's no /dev/snd0:
>
> MAKEDEV snd0 makes a number of devices, but snd0 is NOT one of
> them. You will (and did) get audio0, dsp0, midi0, mixer0, and all of
> the others you listed.
>
That's what I thought too, until I looked in *my* /dev and found
snd{,0,1}. Looking closer I find that they are regular files, not
device nodes, obviously the result of cat(1)ing sound files to the
wrong device. Doh! sorry for the misleading info.
> This is not a problem, but normal behavior.
>
> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
> Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
> Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
> E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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