Re: Number of sound channels?

Thomas Sailer (sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch)
Thu, 09 Dec 1999 21:28:18 +0100


Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > The Via audio chip has a single read channel and a single write
> > channel. Do I treat this as a single channel with read and write
> > capability, or two separate channels?
>
> Single full duplex I think

Mostly I do it both ways - if /dev/dsp is opened O_RDONLY (or O_WRONLY),
another process is allowed to open it O_WRONLY (or O_RDONLY). If it
opens O_RDWR, noone else is allowed.

This is sometimes useful, Sun does it also that way (but it only
works if you can set the sampling rate independently for both
directions).

Tom

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