debian man page for ossdevlinks

ossdevlinks(8)						OSS System Administration Commands					    ossdevlinks(8)

NAME
       ossdevlinks - Open Sound System legacy device management utility.

SYNOPSIS
       ossdevlinks [-vr]

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 a few command line options.

       -f<name>
	      Write legacydev file to <fname>.

       -N     Do not actually modify device files

       -r     Reset the legacy device numbering (do not use).

       -v     Verbose output

       The -r option may 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.

SEE ALSO
       ossinfo(1)

FILES
       /usr/sbin/ossdevlinks /var/lib/oss4/legacy_devices /dev/dspN /dev/midiNN /dev/mixerN

AUTHOR
       4Front Technologies

								 16 December 2012						    ossdevlinks(8)