[Fwd: Re: [PlanetCCRMA] ALSA 1.0.8 Feedback]

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Wed Jan 19 13:28:01 2005


On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 13:18, Saul Lethbridge wrote:
> By the way Fernando how did you know that my Darla was detected as a 
> video device? It was!

Because kudzu (or whoever) wrote this as a configuration for that card:

alias char-major-81 snd-darla20

Looking for devices of that major number yields this (on my rh9 machine,
not on the fc3 one :-):

# ls -l /dev/|grep 81,
crw-------    1 nando    root      81,  64 Jan 30  2003 radio0
crw-------    1 nando    root      81,  65 Jan 30  2003 radio1
crw-------    1 nando    root      81,  66 Jan 30  2003 radio2
crw-------    1 nando    root      81,  67 Jan 30  2003 radio3
crw-------    1 nando    root      81, 224 Jan 30  2003 vbi0
crw-------    1 nando    root      81, 225 Jan 30  2003 vbi1
crw-------    1 nando    root      81, 226 Jan 30  2003 vbi2
crw-------    1 nando    root      81, 227 Jan 30  2003 vbi3
crw-------    1 nando    root      81,   0 Jan 30  2003 video0
crw-------    1 nando    root      81,   1 Jan 30  2003 video1
crw-------    1 nando    root      81,   2 Jan 30  2003 video2
crw-------    1 nando    root      81,   3 Jan 30  2003 video3
crw-------    1 nando    root      81, 192 Jan 30  2003 vtx0
crw-------    1 nando    root      81, 193 Jan 30  2003 vtx1
crw-------    1 nando    root      81, 194 Jan 30  2003 vtx2
crw-------    1 nando    root      81, 195 Jan 30  2003 vtx3

Video related stuff....
-- Fernando