Specifications

6. Answers To Frequently Asked Questions
This section answers some of the questions that have been commonly asked on the Usenet news groups and
mailing lists.
Answers to more questions can also be found at the OSS sound driver web page.
6.1. What are the various sound device files?
These are the most standard device file names, some Linux distributions may use slightly different names.
/dev/audio
normally a link to /dev/audio0
/dev/audio0
Sun workstation compatible audio device (only a partial implementation, does not support Sun ioctl
interface, just u−law encoding)
/dev/audio1
second audio device (if supported by sound card or if more than one sound card installed)
/dev/dsp
normally a link to /dev/dsp0
/dev/dsp0
first digital sampling device
/dev/dsp1
second digital sampling device
/dev/mixer
normally a link to /dev/mixer0
/dev/mixer0
first sound mixer
/dev/mixer1
second sound mixer
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