From: Panagiotis Issaris <takis.issaris@uhasselt.be>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PC speaker listed as input device
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:16:50 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20061024T141625-529@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c526a04b0610231422i8ed5432g71467ae26a99baa1@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
Adam Henley <adamazing <at> gmail.com> writes:
> On 23/10/06, Panagiotis Issaris <panagiotis <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > While trying to get my Hauppauge's remote control working, I noticed that my
> > PC speaker is getting recognized as an input device. This seems very weird
> > to me, is there some logic behind this?
>
> Simple, all speakers are microphones!
> (http://www.google.com/search?q=%22a+speaker+as+a+microphone%22)
>
> Though I don't know the real reason for recognising a speaker as an
> input device, this could be a "logical" explanation :o)
It would be if it would be recognised as /dev/dsp4 or something... but
/dev/input/event4 makes it look like a mouse or keyboard which still
seems very weird and illogical to me :)
With friendly regards,
Takis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-24 12:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-23 18:53 Panagiotis Issaris
2006-10-23 21:22 ` Adam Henley
2006-10-24 12:16 ` Panagiotis Issaris [this message]
2006-10-24 8:42 ` Pavel Machek
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2006-10-23 18:32 Panagiotis Issaris
2006-10-24 8:38 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2006-10-24 13:47 ` Jan Engelhardt
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