Re: device allocated to {14,5}, {14,7}, {14,9}

James Mastros (root@jennifer-unix.dyn.ml.org)
Sat, 24 Jan 1998 19:30:56 -0500 (EST)


On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jan 1998 hpa@transmeta.com (H. Peter Anvin) wrote:
> > /dev/dsp16 seems reasonable to me, and seems to have been the intent
> > given the above defines.
>
> /dev/dsp16 is fine for the first device, but the dsp port on the second
> channel/card then becomes /dev/dsp161, which is somewhat unsatisfactory.
> /dev/dsp16a, /dev/dsp16b works, but is rather unstandard.
Why not /dev/dsp16-2 (not that it's a very important issue -- how many
computers have two sound cards)?

> --Scott

-=- James Mastros