[vorbis-dev] building libao under Debian

[David A. Gatwood]

On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, David 'Superkind' Roden wrote:

> crw-rw-rw-   1 root     audio     14,   4 Nov  8  1999 /dev/audio
> crw-rw-rw-   1 root     audio     14,   3 Nov  8  1999 /dev/dsp
> 
> Oh, it still exists, but it obviously isn't identical to /dev/dsp...

IIRC, /dev/dsp is low-level, direct-to-hardware access, while /dev/audio
goes through kernel-level buffering and mixing, and is thus (I _think_) a
multiple-open device.  Of course, I've never used either one much on x86
hardware (Mac geek), so I could be remembering wrong, or my experiences
could be different from what you'd see.

Later,
David

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