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NAME

snd_dummy – Dummy audio driver

CONTENTS

SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
SEE ALSO
AUTHORS
CAVEATS

SYNOPSIS

To load the driver at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):

snd_dummy_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION

The snd_dummy driver implements a virtual testing device, meaning it does not correspond to a physical sound card. It is intended for testing, so that test programs do not need to rely on hardware being present in the machine in order to run.

The driver attaches as a regular PCM device, with two channels (one playback and one recording), as well as a mixer.

Playback works by discarding all input, and recording by returning silence (zeros).

SEE ALSO

sound(4), loader.conf(5), loader(8)

AUTHORS

The snd_dummy driver was implemented by Christos Margiolis <Mt christos@FreeBSD.org> under sponsorship from the FreeBSD Foundation.

CAVEATS

Because the driver automatically attaches once the module is loaded, it can only be attached once.

July 15, 2024

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