Re: changine sound device?

[Kerry Flint <kerry anv net>]

Elliot Lee wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Apr 1999 16:41:21 -0500, Wicks Robert-CRW051C
> <crw051c@lmpsil02.comm.mot.com> wrote:
>
> >Is it possible to change the sound device that esound uses from /dev/dsp to
> >/dev/dsp<whatever>?  I have the OSS sound driver and virtual mixer, but I
> >can' figure out how to tell esound to redirect it's output.
>

I just installed OSS here as they have a driver for the Aureal A3DVortec 1
card.  I just made a couple of symlinks and OSS works fine here.

ln -sf /dev/dsp1 /dev/dsp
ln -sf /dev/audio1 /dev/audio

Also I run esd with the -as # option so that non esd applications can access
the sound devices.