Dev Mazumdar wrote: >> I have just committed SFEalsa-lib, SFEalsa-utils, and >> SFEalsa-plugins to spec-files-extra on sourceforge. >> As you can guess the alsa-driver is NOT included. No >> problems. Since SFEalsa-plugins has a plugin to talk >> to a OSS audio device you can configure ALSA to >> output sound using a OSS. There is a sample >> /etc/asound.conf installed with SFEalsa-plugins to >> link alsa-lib -> OSS. >> >> For applications which can use both ALSA and OSS I do >> not think there would be any benefit using ALSA, so >> you should add the '--disable-alsa' option to >> configure. >> >> Please note that this is 'version 1' of the port and >> there will be some bugs. Currently, I know that >> speaker-test gives an error (though I have a good >> idea what the problem is). Therefore you should treat >> the port as alpha quality.... >> >> Enjoy >> Doug >> > > Hi Doug, > > This is great news!. > > Kindly cross post in OpenSound-discuss in future so that people interested in > audio can start contributing. > Sorry about that. Will do in the future....
> BTW, have you worked on a port of Jack+OSS on Solaris?. > Yes, there currently is a build-able spec file in the spec-files-extra repository on sourceforge. After a bit of testing today, there a couple of patches I need to upload to make it work. e.g. Sound output and not crashing on printf null pointers. This afternoon I was working on getting it working with RBAC and some patches so it can work under the real time scheduler on Solaris. It may take a couple of days to sort this out properly. At the moment I have mplayer using oss, alsa->oss and jack->oss for it's audio output. Doug
