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  versions  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

                                                11 February 2015                                  ossdevlinks(8)