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

[François Revol]

> 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).

Hmm I was under the impression OSS was actually filtering those out 
before publishing ? I don't have any such device here and I'm sure my 
ATI IXP has one.

François.