On Tuesday 20 April 2004 10:30 pm, Matt Price wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 09:49:03PM -0400, Hong Jiang wrote: > > Sorry for multiple posts, but I forgot to mention that xmms works well > > with the oss output plugin. I'm a little confused, because I didn't > > compile oss into the kernel. I guess xmms is actually using alsa-oss > > emulation. But how could it work, if alsa itself does not work? > > I'd love to know the answer to this myself -- see my earlier post > otday! > m
Another strange thing is that OSS does not always work. In the KDE "Sound System" settings dialog, I set the audio device to "Open sound system". It wouldn't work. I'm wondering what's the difference between the use of OSS in xmms and here. --Hong

