[oss-devel] softmodems (was: MIDI?)

[Clemens Ladisch]

François Revol wrote:
> I have also been wondering about MC97 modem support, it should be
> possible to publish tty devices from them I suppose. [...]
> Even ALSA is supposed (I never tried) to support my ATI IXP modem but I
> never dig the code.

MC97 devices work like AC97 devices and are exposed as a plain 8 Khz PCM
sound devices.  The actual modulator/demodulator stuff is done in a
userspace application, such as linmodem (which uses the OSS API).


Regards,
Clemens