How about just reenabling OSS emulation? It's included in alsa, so it should be no problem, maybe it's just a case of modifying modprobe.conf. I second Victor's suggestion for the csound api, though. I wonder if there is a major impact on performance by using it?
Cheers, Andrés On Jan 18, 2008 5:24 PM, victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What exactly is the problem with the alsa driver? Csound works > OK with it. Replacing it with OSS will require us to write a new > IO module for Csound. Without Csound, audio and music on > the XO will have to be completely re-written. > > IMHO, developers wanting to use audio on the XO should ideally > use Csound and its Python API. That's why it's there. > > As far as I am concerned, having developed audio apps for > Linux for several years, Alsa is much better and more reliable > than OSS. > > Victor > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jordan Crouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "Arjun Sarwal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 9:02 PM > Subject: Re: Why can't i access /dev/dsp or /dev/snd on my XO > > > On 18/01/08 20:57 +0000, Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves wrote: > > As far as I understand this is due to the use of ALSA without OSS > > emulation. It's also what affects one of the three Speex bugs > > affecting the XO, as the CLI tool speexdec is unable to use /dev/dsp. > > > > For the sake of improving the state of audio in the XO; I'd really > > like to put to vote the idea of replacing ALSA with OSS 4. > > If thats the case, then we need somebody to volunteer to write the AC97 > driver for the CS5536. I don't think we would consider any sort of > change until the appropriate hardware controls are in place. > > Jordan > > -- > Jordan Crouse > Systems Software Development Engineer > Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
