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

Gerhard Mack (gmack@imag.net)
Sat, 24 Jan 1998 20:40:04 -0800 (PST)


On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, James Mastros wrote:

> 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)?
>
Bielieve it or not I've seen more than one machine with a sb and a gus.

Gerhard Mack<gmack@imag.net>

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