Virtual sound card through the PC speaker

Magnus Carlebjörk md95-mca at nada.kth.se
Mon Apr 7 09:28:37 PDT 2003


On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Heiko Recktenwald wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Magnus Carlebjörk wrote:
>
> > Anyone know how to emulate a sound card through the PC speaker in
> > freebsd? Is it at all possible?
>
> Yes, it is easy, read LINT, it is an option in the kernel configuration
> file. But you cant do much with it, just cat bla.au > device

Ah, ok, I already got the kernel to find the pca device, but what I
wanted to do was to run mplayer with the perverse outputs 'AAlib' and
sound from the PC speaker. Can I do that directly with the pca
device?

> Well, better than nothing ;-)
>
> Happy compiling,
>
> H.
>
>

/M



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