ossdetect(8)

ossdetect8

Open sound system audio device detection program.

Usage

ossdetect [-diuv] [-m<mode>] [-L<path>]

Overview

The ossdetect application performs automatic detection of soundcards. The application looks at the $OSSETCDIR/device.list and performs automatic detection. It will create a file with the list of the configured drivers in $OSSETCDIR/installed_drivers. OSSETCDIR is decided by reading /etc/oss.conf, and defaults to /etc/oss4.

The Input Multiplexer driver (IMUX) is not configured by default and can be added to the OSS configuration using the -i option.

Options

-d

Create device file links.

-i

Adds the oss_imux driver.

-m<mode>

Create nodes with permissions set to octal <mode>.

-g<group>

Create nodes with group ownership set to <group>.

-u

Adds the oss_userdev driver.

-v

Verbose output.

-L<path>

Use <path> as root directory for OSS files. Default: Path from /etc/oss.conf, followed by /usr/lib/oss.

Files

/etc/oss.conf /usr/sbin/ossdetect

Releases

3 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 6.0
  2. 7
  3. 8

Author

4Front Technologies

From oss4-base 4.2-build2010-2 in Debian 8 (Jessie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.