Re: [2.1.36] /dev/audio don' play short au files

David Gibson (david@brucehall20.anu.edu.au)
Sun, 4 May 1997 10:09:12 +1000 (EST)


On Sat, 3 May 1997, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> With 2.1.36 kernel /dev/audio don' t play files shorter than ~ 4096 byte.

I've come across this problem too - trying to play a "click" sample of
only 16 bytes. It seems that the ioctl SNDCTL_DSP_SYNC, either is broken
or doesn't work like it used to

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