Using the driver that came with the kernel is
always a safe bet if you are not experiencing a specific driver-related issue.
At times, a sound application will ask you to identify the device from which to access sound on
your system. With the introduction of the Udev feature in the 2.6 kernel, some of the device names
are different from those used with the 2.4 kernel. The following are audio device nodes that may
be of interest to you as you use sound in Linux:
/dev/audio, /dev/audio1??”Compatible with Sun workstation audio implementations
(audio files with the .au extension). These devices are not recommended for new
sound applications. Under Udev, these devices are symbolic links to /dev/sound/audio
and /dev/sound/audio1, respectively.
/dev/cdrom??”Represents your first CD-ROM drive. /dev/cdrom is usually a symbolic
link to the device node, such as /dev/hdc, that corresponds to your CD-ROM drive.
Additional CD-ROM drives are located at /dev/cdrom1, /dev/cdrom2, and so on.
/dev/dsp, /dev/dsp1??”Digital sampling devices, which many audio applications
identify to access your sound card. Under Udev, these devices are symbolic links to
/dev/sound/dsp and /dev/sound/dsp1, respectively.
/dev/mixer, /dev/mixer1??”Sound-mixing devices. Under Udev, these devices are
symbolic links to /dev/sound/mixer and /dev/sound/mixer1, respectively.
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