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

                                                21 November 2019                                  ossdevlinks(8)