[GRLUG] Utility box

[Michael Mol]

On 3/25/07, Topher <topher at wcsg.org> wrote:
> > Per-app issues apply when you want a specific application to output
> > audio to a specific device.  The application needs to have a
> > configuration option that allows you to select which device your audio
> > output should go to.  Most applications dedicated to audio have such
> > configuration options.
>
> Ah, ok.  So a second card would end up something like /dev/dsp2 or
> something.

For the OSS emulation layer, yes.  For ALSA, it's simply the second
card in the list of available cards.  (I've always found ALSA's
syscall-based operations to be a bit black-boxish myself, but hey, it
works, and normally better than OSS.)

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