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.TH 8 "August 31, 2006" "OSS" "System Administration Commands"
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.SH NAME
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ossinfo - Open Sound System legacy device management utility.
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The ossdevlinks utility creates and manages old style (legacy) device files
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for OSS audio, MIDI and mixer devices.
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In previous versioms OSS used "flat" device numbering for the device files
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(for example /dev/dsp0 to /dev/dspN). OSS version 4.0 and later uses different
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naming scheme. The ossdevlinks utility is used to manage the legacy device
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names as symbolic links to the new style devices.
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.SH OPTIONS
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Normally ossdevlinks is used without command line arguments. However
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there are few command line options.
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-v Verbose output
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-r Reset the legacy device numbering (do not use).
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The -r option will invalidate audio device selections in the setup files
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of various applications. This is considered highly undesirable. Applications
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using wrong audio devices may cause serious security and privacy problems.
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For this reason the -r option should never be used unless there are no other
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ways to recover from serious audio/sound related problems. After that users
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should review the audio settings of all the audio applications they are using.
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.SH
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.SH FILES
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/usr/sbin/ossdevlinks
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/usr/lib/oss/etc/legacy_devices
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/dev/dspN
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/dev/midiNN
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/dev/mixerN
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.SH AUTHOR
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4Front Technologies
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