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From: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@jcu.cz>
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On Thu, 7 May 1998, Gerd Knorr wrote:

> On Thu, 7 May 1998, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> 
> > Default format (U8 or S16_LE) depends on minor number which is assigned to
> > /dev/dsp (minor % 16 = 3 -> 8-bit unsigned, minor % 16 = 5 -> 16-bit
> > signed little endian).
> 
> OSS has another filename for 16bit wide default format, /dev/dspw IIRC.
> /dev/dsp should default to 8bit. 

Maybe. I'm not using OSS about three years, so things maybe changed ;-)
I remember that some old applications have trouble (for example sndserver
from doom) if /dev/dsp doesn't default to 16-bit wide.

					Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex@jcu.cz>
Academic Computer Centre, University of South Bohemia
Branisovska 31, C. Budejovice, CZ-370 05 Czech Republic


