Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 00:00:28 +0100 From: "Cameron Grant" <gandalf@vilnya.demon.co.uk> To: "John-Mark Gurney" <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>, <alk@pobox.com> Cc: <multimedia@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: resetting dsp parameters Message-ID: <003901bef660$1de20e80$0304020a@rings> References: <14282.4551.568237.302494@avalon.east> <19990831225727.61666@hydrogen.fircrest.net>
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> Anthony Kimball scribbled this message on Aug 30:
> > One complaint I have with the current sound driver interface is
> > that dsp parameters (n channels, sample size, sample rate) are
> > reset to non-useful values every time I open the device.
> > This makes it unnecessarily hard to write scripts to use the
> > device. For example, I can't write a sndcontrol program to
> > change the sample characteristics. and use dd to perform sound i/o,
> > because when dd opens the device, the ioctl's have lost effect.
unfortunately, fixing this would break oss compatibility.
if there is interest, i could add a minor number for another device which
didn't get reset on open.
- cameron
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