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