Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] PCM Device Enumeration
From: Fred Gleason (fredg_AT_wava.com)
Date: Fri May 10 2002 - 23:14:09 EEST
On Friday 10 May 2002 14:48, Paul Davis wrote:
> if you want to see how to do it "the right way", look at what "aplay
> -L" does, since this takes the contents of ~/.asoundrc into
> account. your code above doesn't do that at all. because ALSA allows
> the user to define PCM devices with specific characteristics that are
> slaves and/or subsets of h/w devices, what you're trying to do above
> is really circumventing the ALSA configuration system.
OK, 'aplay -L' gives a completely cryptic listing of what I assume to be a
configuration setup. Is this stuff documented somewhere? Alsa-project.org
seems pretty much useless for 0.9.0 docs.
Cheers!
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