Re: [gentoo-user] sound problem
well, i recompiled and broke the kernel :P while i was trying to fix it, the livecd had the same problem as my installation; it complained about alsa-drivers being compiled incorrectly. Perhaps a bug?On 6/14/06, recordus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when I compiled my kernel, I only selected Sound card support,butdidn't select any module that is supported by the kernel(Alas or oss),then I emerge alsa-driver, and it works well.ps:my english is poor,sorry :) Strake wrote: alsa-driver is compiled into kernel, and emerge alsa-driver complains because of it and exits--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Registered Linux User #392061counter.li.orgEverything is more fun when you add a rocket engine. No, you may not goto the washroom. Last time you went to the washroom, we found you days later in an air vent.-Bryn
Re: [gentoo-user] sound problem
alsa-driver is compiled into kernel, and emerge alsa-driver complains because of it and exits.On 6/11/06, Yun Xupeng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:maybe you didn't compile drivers thatyour soundcard uses. try emerge alsa-drivers again... 2006/6/12, Strake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -- I like Python Linux. -- Registered Linux User #392061counter.li.orgEverything is more fun when you add a rocket engine. No, you may not goto the washroom. Last time you went to the washroom, we found you days later in an air vent.-Bryn
Re: [gentoo-user] sound problem
when I compiled my kernel, I only selected Sound card support,but didn't select any module that is supported by the kernel(Alas or oss), then I emerge alsa-driver, and it works well. ps:my english is poor,sorry :) Strake wrote: alsa-driver is compiled into kernel, and emerge alsa-driver complains because of it and exits -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] sound problem
Hi all, I have a box which runs gentoo, and the sound doesn't work. When i run xmms, i get the following message: ** WARNING **: alsa_get_mixer(): Attaching to mixer hw:0 failed: No such device The sound is a Creative SoundBlaster Audigy (onboard my MSI K8N Diamond Plus motherboard). Alsa is installed, and emu10k1 is compiled into the kernel. When i run alsaconf, however, it cannot find my sound device. Any help would be greatly appreciated.-- Registered Linux User #392061counter.li.orgNo, you may not goto the washroom. Last time you went to the washroom, we found you days later in an air vent. -Bryn
Re: [gentoo-user] sound problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 15:00, domenica 11 giugno 2006, Strake ha scritto: Hi all, I have a box which runs gentoo, and the sound doesn't work. When i run xmms, i get the following message: ** WARNING **: alsa_get_mixer(): Attaching to mixer hw:0 failed: No such device The sound is a Creative SoundBlaster Audigy (onboard my MSI K8N Diamond Plus motherboard). Alsa is installed, and emu10k1 is compiled into the kernel. When i run alsaconf, however, it cannot find my sound device. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Have you started the alsasound service? What do you read from lspci? and dmesg? I think you forgot to compile some modules... Luigi - -- Public key GPG(0x633F86B7) on hkp://keyserver.linux.it/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEjBsiHmkkjmM/hrcRAp6TAJ9LhuqqKgtDjxtgcDslTQ7inIjJKgCeOFKK o5dIxJkq2maHfcMR+pe604U= =rg/L -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] sound problem
lspci reports 04:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy LS dmesg says nothing about sound... it's been a while since i last rebooted this box ;D when i try to start alsasound manually, it says the following: * Loading ALSA modules ... * Could not detect custom ALSA settings. Loading all detected alsa drivers. * Unable to find any ALSA drivers. Have you compiled alsa-drivers correctly? * ERROR: Failed to load necessary drivers * Restoring Mixer Levels ... * No mixer config in /etc/asound.state, you have to unmute your card! which is strange because alsa-drivers are compiled into kernel. On 6/11/06, Luigi Pinna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-Hash: SHA1Alle 15:00, domenica 11 giugno 2006, Strake ha scritto: Hi all, I have a box which runs gentoo, and the sound doesn't work. When i run xmms, i get the following message: ** WARNING **: alsa_get_mixer(): Attaching to mixer hw:0 failed: No such device The sound is a Creative SoundBlaster Audigy (onboard my MSI K8N Diamond Plus motherboard). Alsa is installed, and emu10k1 is compiled into the kernel. When i run alsaconf, however, it cannot find my sound device. Any help would be greatly appreciated.Have you started the alsasound service? What do you read from lspci? anddmesg? I think you forgot to compile some modules...Luigi- --Public key GPG(0x633F86B7) on hkp://keyserver.linux.it/-BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux)iD8DBQFEjBsiHmkkjmM/hrcRAp6TAJ9LhuqqKgtDjxtgcDslTQ7inIjJKgCeOFKK o5dIxJkq2maHfcMR+pe604U==rg/L-END PGP SIGNATURE---gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- Registered Linux User #392061 counter.li.orgNo, you may not goto the washroom. Last time you went to the washroom, we found you days later in an air vent.-Bryn
Re: [gentoo-user] sound problem
maybe you didn't compile drivers thatyour soundcard uses. try emerge alsa-drivers again... 2006/6/12, Strake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -- I like Python Linux.
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem
Ian wrote: This is kind of along the same line of alsa mixer. I use kde and fluxbox, but kde's stupid sound daemon wont let some apps have sound, such as audacity or firefox. When I use Fluxbox, the sound works, but _every_ time I boot my computer into Fluxbox, I must unmute and level up all of my sounds. Is there any way to save the configuration past your session? Thanks! ~Ian adjust the volumes, and run (under root) /etc/init.t/alsasound save or alsactl -f /etc/asound.state save or you can set SAVE_ON_STOP=yes in /etc/conf.d/alsasound to save volumes on every shutdown all of these require that you have alsasound started at boot yoyo -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem
Problem solved! i compiled all the required drivers as modules and then ran alsaconf, now my sound is finally working. Thanks to you all Rafa -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Sound problem
Hello everyone! I have Via on-board sound and i cant get the audio to work. At first the problem was that /dev/dsp did not exist, so i loaded a couple of modules into the kernel (mostly following www.gentoo.org alsa-guide) after that, the error message became could not open /dev/dsp permission denied so i tryied chmod a+rw /dev/sound/dsp (also from gentoo docs) nevertheless, i stillo have no sound. For example when using XMMS if choose to use the Alsa driver, an error pops up telling me failed to open audio output: Alsa plugin, so i choose Arts which doesnt trigger any errors but there is stillo no sound!! i ran lspci |grep audio and this is what returned 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) i had all the necessary kernel options (according to the gentoo doc) built-in in the kernel, including AC97 so i am out of ideas. If anyone has any clue of what i should do, it would be greatly apprecieated. Thanks in advance Rafael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem
On 1/27/06, Rafael Barrera Oro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone! I have Via on-board sound and i cant get the audio to work. At first the problem was that /dev/dsp did not exist, so i loaded a couple of modules into the kernel (mostly following www.gentoo.org alsa-guide) after that, the error message became could not open /dev/dsp permission denied so i tryied chmod a+rw /dev/sound/dsp (also from gentoo docs) nevertheless, i stillo have no sound. For example when using XMMS if choose to use the Alsa driver, an error pops up telling me failed to open audio output: Alsa plugin, so i choose Arts which doesnt trigger any errors but there is stillo no sound!! i ran lspci |grep audio and this is what returned 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) i had all the necessary kernel options (according to the gentoo doc) built-in in the kernel, including AC97 so i am out of ideas. If anyone has any clue of what i should do, it would be greatly apprecieated. Thanks in advance Rafael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Try putting your user in the audio group -- Andrés -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem
I followed your advice Andres and its weird, there are now no error messages anywhere to be found!! yet the sound does not work, i think it is more of a curse, so i will subscribe to the exorcism mailing list, anyway i will continue to hear your suggestions of course :P Thanks anyway soundless Rafa -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem
Two things. Build your audio drivers as modules. Secondly, emerge alsautils then use alsamixer to adjust your audio levels. They're all muted by default.On 1/27/06, Rafael Barrera Oro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I followed your advice Andres and its weird, there are now no errormessages anywhere to be found!! yet the sound does not work, i thinkit is more of a curse, so i will subscribe to the exorcism mailinglist, anyway i will continue to hear your suggestions of course :P Thanks anywaysoundless Rafa--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- Jason Weisberger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem
This is kind of along the same line of alsa mixer.I use kde and fluxbox, but kde's stupid sound daemon wont letsome apps have sound, such as audacity or firefox.When I use Fluxbox, the sound works, but _every_ time I boot my computer into Fluxbox, I must unmute and level upall of my sounds. Is there any way to save the configurationpast your session?Thanks!~IanOn 1/27/06, Jason Weisberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Two things. Build your audio drivers as modules. Secondly, emerge alsautils then use alsamixer to adjust your audio levels. They're all muted by default.On 1/27/06, Rafael Barrera Oro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I followed your advice Andres and its weird, there are now no errormessages anywhere to be found!! yet the sound does not work, i thinkit is more of a curse, so i will subscribe to the exorcism mailinglist, anyway i will continue to hear your suggestions of course :P Thanks anywaysoundless Rafa--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Jason Weisberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Cheers,Ian
[gentoo-user] Sound problem
Hi guys, Good morning (in Brazil hehe) ;) So, today's doubt is about sound... i can listen my mp3 with xmms, i can play nfsu2 with cedega and sound works fine... but, when i try mpg123 to play (as user) or play some game that uses /dev/dsp directly, i get this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ mpg123 MEDIA/MUSICAS/Sum\ 41/Does\ This\ Look\ Infected_/01\ -\ The\ Hell\ Song.mp3 High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2 and 3. Version 0.59s-r9 (2000/Oct/27). Written and copyrights by Michael Hipp. Uses code from various people. See 'README' for more! THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! Can't open /dev/dsp! If i try it as root it works perfectly... Does anyone knows this problem? Thanks ... Bruno Gola -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem
Bruno Gola wrote: Can't open /dev/dsp! If i try it as root it works perfectly... Does anyone knows this problem? Permissions on /dev/dsp Either set /dev/dsp to be 666, or (better), add audio to your group. regards -- Charles Oertel FineBushPeople.net tel: 021 701 8231 fax: 021 701 3338 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem
On 7/11/05, Bruno Gola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys,Good morning (in Brazil hehe) ;)So, today's doubt is about sound... i can listen my mp3 with xmms, i canplay nfsu2 with cedega and sound works fine... but, when i try mpg123 toplay (as user) or play some game that uses /dev/dsp directly, i get this error:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ mpg123 MEDIA/MUSICAS/Sum\ 41/Does\ This\ Look\Infected_/01\ -\ The\ Hell\ Song.mp3High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2 and 3.Version 0.59s-r9 (2000/Oct/27). Written and copyrights by Michael Hipp. Uses code from various people. See 'README' for more!THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!Can't open /dev/dsp!If i try it as root it works perfectly...Does anyone knows this problem? Thanks ...Bruno Gola--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing listIf you have /dev/dsp0 or something like that, make /dev/dsp a symlink to your sound device, for example /dev/dsp0. -- Dell Inspiron 600mPentium-M 1.6G512MB, 60GATI 9000 Mobility
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem
On 7/11/05, ZeeGeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/11/05, Bruno Gola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys,Good morning (in Brazil hehe) ;)So, today's doubt is about sound... i can listen my mp3 with xmms, i canplay nfsu2 with cedega and sound works fine... but, when i try mpg123 toplay (as user) or play some game that uses /dev/dsp directly, i get this error:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ mpg123 MEDIA/MUSICAS/Sum\ 41/Does\ This\ Look\Infected_/01\ -\ The\ Hell\ Song.mp3High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2 and 3.Version 0.59s-r9 (2000/Oct/27). Written and copyrights by Michael Hipp. Uses code from various people. See 'README' for more!THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!Can't open /dev/dsp!If i try it as root it works perfectly...Does anyone knows this problem? Thanks ...Bruno Gola--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list If you have /dev/dsp0 or something like that, make /dev/dsp a symlink to your sound device, for example /dev/dsp0. -- Dell Inspiron 600mPentium-M 1.6G512MB, 60GATI 9000 Mobility sorry, I misunderstood your post. I thought that /dev/dsp was missing.-- Dell Inspiron 600mPentium-M 1.6G512MB, 60GATI 9000 Mobility
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem
Charles Oertel wrote: Bruno Gola wrote: Can't open /dev/dsp! If i try it as root it works perfectly... Does anyone knows this problem? Permissions on /dev/dsp Either set /dev/dsp to be 666, or (better), add audio to your group. regards -- Charles Oertel FineBushPeople.net tel: 021 701 8231 fax: 021 701 3338 The first thing that i've tried was that... permission... but no success... (im in audio group already)... Anyway, thanks the reply... :D -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem
ZeeGeek wrote: On 7/11/05, *ZeeGeek* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/11/05, *Bruno Gola* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, Good morning (in Brazil hehe) ;) So, today's doubt is about sound... i can listen my mp3 with xmms, i can play nfsu2 with cedega and sound works fine... but, when i try mpg123 to play (as user) or play some game that uses /dev/dsp directly, i get this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ mpg123 MEDIA/MUSICAS/Sum\ 41/Does\ This\ Look\ Infected_/01\ -\ The\ Hell\ Song.mp3 High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2 and 3. Version 0.59s-r9 (2000/Oct/27). Written and copyrights by Michael Hipp. Uses code from various people. See 'README' for more! THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! Can't open /dev/dsp! If i try it as root it works perfectly... Does anyone knows this problem? Thanks ... Bruno Gola -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailto:gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list If you have /dev/dsp0 or something like that, make /dev/dsp a symlink to your sound device, for example /dev/dsp0. -- Dell Inspiron 600m Pentium-M 1.6G 512MB, 60G ATI 9000 Mobility sorry, I misunderstood your post. I thought that /dev/dsp was missing. -- Dell Inspiron 600m Pentium-M 1.6G 512MB, 60G ATI 9000 Mobility No problems :) Thanks anyway! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem
are using arts, esd or something similar?? What output plugin you use in xmms that allows you to listen to mp3s? On 7/11/05, Bruno Gola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, Good morning (in Brazil hehe) ;) So, today's doubt is about sound... i can listen my mp3 with xmms, i can play nfsu2 with cedega and sound works fine... but, when i try mpg123 to play (as user) or play some game that uses /dev/dsp directly, i get this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ mpg123 MEDIA/MUSICAS/Sum\ 41/Does\ This\ Look\ Infected_/01\ -\ The\ Hell\ Song.mp3 High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2 and 3. Version 0.59s-r9 (2000/Oct/27). Written and copyrights by Michael Hipp. Uses code from various people. See 'README' for more! THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! Can't open /dev/dsp! If i try it as root it works perfectly... Does anyone knows this problem? Thanks ... Bruno Gola -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Rafael Dantas de Castro Engenharia de Computação 2001 - Unicamp - Laboratório de Criptografia Aplicada Se procurar bem você acaba encontrando. Não a explicação (duvidosa) da vida, Mas a poesia (inexplicável) da vida. Carlos Drummond de Andrade -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem
Rafael Dantas de Castro wrote: are using arts, esd or something similar?? What output plugin you use in xmms that allows you to listen to mp3s? On 7/11/05, Bruno Gola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, Good morning (in Brazil hehe) ;) So, today's doubt is about sound... i can listen my mp3 with xmms, i can play nfsu2 with cedega and sound works fine... but, when i try mpg123 to play (as user) or play some game that uses /dev/dsp directly, i get this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ mpg123 MEDIA/MUSICAS/Sum\ 41/Does\ This\ Look\ Infected_/01\ -\ The\ Hell\ Song.mp3 High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2 and 3. Version 0.59s-r9 (2000/Oct/27). Written and copyrights by Michael Hipp. Uses code from various people. See 'README' for more! THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! Can't open /dev/dsp! If i try it as root it works perfectly... Does anyone knows this problem? Thanks ... Bruno Gola -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Both ESD and ALSA output plugin works for me with xmms -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem
On Mon, July 11, 2005 8:14 am, Bruno Gola said: Charles Oertel wrote: Bruno Gola wrote: Can't open /dev/dsp! If i try it as root it works perfectly... Does anyone knows this problem? Permissions on /dev/dsp Either set /dev/dsp to be 666, or (better), add audio to your group. regards -- Charles Oertel FineBushPeople.net tel: 021 701 8231 fax: 021 701 3338 The first thing that i've tried was that... permission... but no success... (im in audio group already)... Anyway, thanks the reply... :D Check /dev/sound/dsp for the correct permission. On my machine /dev/dsp was a symlink of /dev/sound/dsp and even though the symlink's permissions were correct the permissions of the file it was linked to were not. For me at least, adding yourself to audio wouldn't work as the files (well, /dev/dsp at least) looked to be owned by root:root. I just had this problem and doing a chmod o+rw /dev/sound/dsp solved it (I actually did /dev/sound/* just in case). -- James Tanis [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pycoder.org -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem
Bruno Gola wrote: Rafael Dantas de Castro wrote: are using arts, esd or something similar?? What output plugin you use in xmms that allows you to listen to mp3s? On 7/11/05, Bruno Gola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can't open /dev/dsp! If i try it as root it works perfectly... Does anyone knows this problem? Thanks ... Bruno Gola -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Both ESD and ALSA output plugin works for me with xmms If something is trying to open /dev/dsp, then it is using the (obsolete) OSS API. You need to enable OSS emulation in the kernel drivers. Note that, AFAIK, there is no mixing possible with the OSS API. Your best bet is to tell the apps to use ALSA, or use one of the dsp wrapper libraries that are available. If the app doesn't support ALSA, complain!! -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem
On Mon, July 11, 2005 1:59 pm, Richard Fish said: Bruno Gola wrote: Rafael Dantas de Castro wrote: are using arts, esd or something similar?? What output plugin you use in xmms that allows you to listen to mp3s? On 7/11/05, Bruno Gola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can't open /dev/dsp! If i try it as root it works perfectly... Does anyone knows this problem? Thanks ... Bruno Gola -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Both ESD and ALSA output plugin works for me with xmms If something is trying to open /dev/dsp, then it is using the (obsolete) OSS API. You need to enable OSS emulation in the kernel drivers. In the Linux kernel it may be deprecated but OSS is not obsolete. Other operating systems besides Linux need sound after all :). Note that, AFAIK, there is no mixing possible with the OSS API. Your It does support mixing. -- James Tanis [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pycoder.org -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem
For the kernel, deprecated == likely to be removed soon == obsolete. Now, it is true that only the OSS drivers are deprecated, not the OSS emulation provided by ALSA. The question is if the ALSA OSS emulation is a good idea. Because it exists, people are not urged to use ALSA. I have no problem with applications supporting OSS for operating systems besides Linux, because as you say, that is the standard for those systems. I do have a problem with apps that insist on *only* supporting OSS for Linux. That's true. What really bugs me is that most of the offending apps are commercial applications that don't even have ports for Solaris, FreeBSD, etc!! Besides, it isn't like supporting multiple sound APIs is really all that hard Note that, AFAIK, there is no mixing possible with the OSS API. Your It does support mixing. According to the dmix HOWTO, you are correct, it should work. I guess I just gave up too easily, and I stand corrected. Thanks. If an application tries to access /dev/dsp, DMIX does - AFAIK - not work transparently. INstead you have to start the application using the aoss wrapper, maybe aoss skype or aoss reaplay. This doesn't work convenient for the user. Furthermore, there seems to be a bug so Skype will crash as soon as it gets invoked via aoss (I don't know if it is a Skype or an aoss bug). So, if want to stay idle for incoming Skype calls, do not start any other sound application because Skype blocks your device... Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem
On Mon, July 11, 2005 4:02 pm, Christoph Eckert said: For the kernel, deprecated == likely to be removed soon == obsolete. Now, it is true that only the OSS drivers are deprecated, not the OSS emulation provided by ALSA. The question is if the ALSA OSS emulation is a good idea. Because it exists, people are not urged to use ALSA. There is also OSS ALSA emulation. I have no problem with applications supporting OSS for operating systems besides Linux, because as you say, that is the standard for those systems. I do have a problem with apps that insist on *only* supporting OSS for Linux. That's true. What really bugs me is that most of the offending apps are commercial applications that don't even have ports for Solaris, FreeBSD, etc!! Besides, it isn't like supporting multiple sound APIs is really all that hard Note that, AFAIK, there is no mixing possible with the OSS API. Your It does support mixing. According to the dmix HOWTO, you are correct, it should work. I guess I just gave up too easily, and I stand corrected. Thanks. If an application tries to access /dev/dsp, DMIX does - AFAIK - not work transparently. INstead you have to start the application using the aoss wrapper, maybe aoss skype or aoss reaplay. This doesn't work convenient for the user. Furthermore, there seems to be a bug so Skype will crash as soon as it gets invoked via aoss (I don't know if it is a Skype or an aoss bug). So, if want to stay idle for incoming Skype calls, do not start any other sound application because Skype blocks your device... I am admittedly not to familiar with Linux's implementation of OSS, it could be that it is obselete and buggy. I have only used OSS in other operating systems. In my experience mixing and/or dynamic virtual channels are available with /dev/dsp through kernel/modules no userland applications are needed. This all seems kind of irrelevant though, I believe this guy is using ALSA with OSS emulation :p. -- James Tanis [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pycoder.org -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
