I believe this is specific to OSS, which was deprecated after it went closed source for a bit and ALSA replaced it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Sound_Sys

I believe this is specific to OSS, which was deprecated after it went closed source for a bit and ALSA replaced it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Sound_System http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Sound_System I'm fairly happy using the OpenAL API instead to generate audio cross-platform at the moment.