What are the various sound device files?
These are the most standard device file names, some Linux distributions may use slightly different names. /dev/audio normally a link to /dev/audio0/dev/audio0 Sun workstation compatible audio device (only a partial implementation, does not support Sun ioctl interface, just u-law encoding)/dev/audio1 second audio device (if supported by sound card or if more than one sound card installed)/dev/dsp normally a link to /dev/dsp0/dev/dsp0 first digital sampling device/dev/dsp1 second digital sampling device/dev/mixer normally a link to /dev/mixer0/dev/mixer0 first sound mixer/dev/mixer1 second sound mixer/dev/music high-level sequencer interface/dev/sequencer low level MIDI, FM, and GUS access/dev/sequencer2 normally a link to /dev/music/dev/midi00 1st raw MIDI port/dev/midi01 2nd raw MIDI port/dev/midi02 3rd raw MIDI port/dev/midi03 4th raw MIDI port/dev/sndstat displays sound driver status when read (also available as /proc/sound, removed in 2.
